title: Body counts and murder rates: the contested statistics of Western violence. [Review of: McKanna CV, Jr. Race and homicide in nineteenth-century California. Reno, University of Nevada Press, 2002; Peterson del Mar D. Beaten down: a history interpersonal violence in the West. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2002].
authors.affiliation: State University of New York, Albany, USA. dykstra39@aol.com
authors.forename: Robert R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Dykstra
mesh_terms: D006663:Historiography; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006708:Homicide / Q000266:history* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D018594:Human Body; D006801:Humans; D013223:Statistics as Topic / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States