Old Photographs

I think Lashenais was the founder of  the "Crips"

Crowd at the lynching of Lashenais on the corner of Temple Street and New High (Justica) Street, Los Angeles, 1870

“ Description Photograph of a crowd at the lynching of Lashenais on the corner of Temple Street and New High (Justica) Street, Los Angeles, 1870. A crowd of people gathers around the gate to the lumber yard. Lashenais, who was lynched for killing Jacob Bell, hangs from the archway. Many people towards the outside of the crowd simply sit, inactive. Tents and other spectators can be seen on the hill in the background. The image also shows Pound Cake Hill, which would later become the site of the Court House and then the Criminal Courts Building. Crowd at the lynching of Lashenais on the corner of Temple Street and New High (Justica) Street, Los Angeles, 1870 ” Jodi Lou sent me Really Old Pictures.PPS, a copy of which you may view here (Be sure and click 'Full Screen').  Wondering who the hanged guy Lashenais was led me to the USC Digital Library, from whence the Description above.  The pictures "Return of Casey's scouts from the fight at Wounded Knee 1890 ," and ""General George A. Custer, Dakota Territory 1874"  (2 years before Little Big Horn) struck a chord. I tried to read "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" several times, but just could not get into it.  This leaves me wondering whether the "fight" became a "massacre" through the same process Columbus was branded a mass murderer?