In researching my family history, I came across Stephen Osborne’s “Stories of a Lynching” (Geist 60) about the lynching of Louis Sam, a young Sto:lo man, near Sumas Lake, B.C., in 1884. The story mentions Thomas York (Whatcom County, Washington), my great-great- grandfather, and Thomas Fraser York, my great-grandfather, but nobody in my family has ever told me about the Louis Sam incident.