In the 1890s, Amos Lunt served as the San Quentin hangman, tying the nooses that brought the most dangerous criminals in the Wild West to their deaths. This book follows Lunt’s trail from the Santa Cruz police department to the San Quentin State Prison, and covers his friendships with a series of death row inmates.
Writer and researcher Tobin T. Buhk lives in Jenison, Michigan.