[WESTERN AMERICA]. Group of Five Western Newspapers, including: four issues of the Carson Daily Appeal, nos. 49, 51, 62, 63. Carson City, NV, May 6, 1873, May 8, 1873, May 21, 1873, May 22, 1873. Each issue folded folio sheets, 4 pages. Unfolded approximately 464 x 610 mm. With racist articles, including: “The innocent amusement of ‘killing n####rs’ as indulged in by the guileless Caucasians who conducted the massacre at Colfax, Louisiana, is thus naively set forth in the relation of one of the participants. Say he, referring to the thirty-seven blacks who had surrendered themselves: ‘The boys took them down to the river and shot them, or cut their throats. Two of the boys would hold one up, another would give him the shooter between the eyes or draw his knife across his throat, and then they would pitch him into the water and take another. While this was going on, some of the fellers hand up a few on the trees around there, just by way of variety…’” And The Wilmington Journal, no. 39. Los Angeles, August 11, 1866. Folded folio sheet, 4 pages. Unfolded approximately 545 x 692 mm. Post Civil War stories. Papers on newsprint (toned, worn, creased, soiled, marginal tears, chips).