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- 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 accounts of the lives and crimes of many of the robbers and desperadoes, the whole being interspersed with sketches of life in the mining camps of the "Far West"
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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 accounts of the lives and crimes of many of the robbers and desperadoes, the whole being interspersed with sketches of life in the mining camps of the "Far West"
by Thos. J. (Thomas Josiah) Dimsdale
Chapters
41 totalTHE VIGILANTES OF MONTANA,
PREFACE.
CHAPTER I.Introductory—Vigilance Committees.
CHAPTER II.THE SUNNY SIDE OF MOUNTAIN LIFE.
CHAPTER III.SETTLEMENT OF MONTANA.
CHAPTER IV.THE ROAD AGENTS.
CHAPTER V.THE DARK DAYS OF MONTANA.
CHAPTER VI.THE TRIAL.
CHAPTER VII.PLUMMER VERSUS CRAWFORD.
CHAPTER VIII.A CALENDAR OF CRIMES.
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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 accounts of the lives and crimes of many of the robbers and desperadoes, the whole being interspersed with sketches of life in the mining camps of the "Far West" Being a correct and impartial narrative of the chase, trial, capture and execution of Henry Plummer's road agent band, together with accounts of the lives and crimes of many of the robbers and desperadoes, the whole being interspersed with sketches of life in the mining camps of the "Far West"
Language
en
Duration
~8 hours (487K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
United States: Montana Post Press, D. W. Tilton & Co.,1865,pubdate 1866.
Credits
Steve Mattern and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
May 21, 2022
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
About the author
Thos. J. (Thomas Josiah) Dimsdale
d. 1866
An English-born journalist and teacher, he became one of the earliest writers to capture Montana Territory's rough-and-tumble frontier in print. His best-known book, The Vigilantes of Montana, helped shape how generations remembered the Gold Rush era and the vigilante movement.
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