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Chapter 10
Dragged before a Missouri mob, Maxwell is bound to a stake and the wood lit — Hopkins's unflinching set piece on mob violence — before Colonel Titus arrives with constables to claim the prisoner for the law instead. What the law intends is left an open, ugly question.
The mob at the cross-roadsBurning as public spectacleColonel Titus's interventionHopkins on mob violence