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Louie Sam: How the West Was Undone'3:10 to Yuma' mans up, according to Tyee. The Riot that Changed Canada How rampagers against Asians in Vancouver helped launch a famous PM. The Freeing of Charles Mitchell How a prisoner slave was liberated just by stepping onto Victoria soil. Photo courtesy of Huntington Library. Read more: Media image: Sign Up for the Tyee Newsletter Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles John Mack FaragherW.W. Norton In February of 1884 an angry American mob crossed into British Columbia, seized a Sto:lo youth named Louie Sam from the custody of a B.C. deputy, and set about lynching the boy from a tree. The sordid tale might make for a powerful Hollywood movie. The vigilantes, led by two white men, claimed Sam had murdered a white shopkeeper in Washington state, but historians are almost certain he was innocent. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.