June 4, 1874 – Happy Camp, California: A Mob Lynched Two Unnamed Chinese Men Accused of Murder

In June 1874, at Happy Camp, California, a mob lynched two unnamed Chinese men. A Canadian newspaper noted in a single sentence that “Two Chinaman were lynched yesterday by a mob at Happy Camp, O'Meara County, California, for murder” (Ottawa Daily Citizen, June 5 1874). Several other reports of the Happy Camp double lynching were equally terse. The fact that even a double murder received so little press underscores the disregard shown to Chinese immigrants on the American frontier.