The Vigilantes of Montana. Or Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains
Dimsdale, Thomas Josiah. The Vigilantes of Montana. Or Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains. Being a Correct and Impartial Narrative of the Chase, Trial, Capture, and Execution of Henry Plummer's Road Agent Band, Together with the Accounts of the Lives and Crimes of Many of the Robbers and Desperados, the Whole Being Interspersed with Sketches of Life in the Mining Camps of the Far West. Helena: State Publishing, [1915]. 290 pp. Reprinted The Legal Classics Library, 2012. Full calf, extra gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Bookplate on front pastedown, else fine. $30. * A defense of the actions of the vigilantes who wrestled control of Virginia City and Bannack from a gang of notorious "road agents" who terrorized the country, robbed stagecoaches and lone travelers, and committed countless murders. The gang was led by Henry Plummer who got himself elected sheriff of Virginia City District and Bannack. A group of citizens secretly organized a Vigilance Committee that enlisted the most law-abiding men in the area. The committee quietly went to work and, after a confession by one of the desperadoes, learned that Plummer was leader of the gang. What followed was the carriage of vigilante justice. (Publisher's description).
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