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Thos. J. (Thomas Josiah) Dimsdale
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

EN·~8 hours·41 chapters

Chapters

41 total

THE VIGILANTES OF MONTANA,

0:46

PREFACE.

1:53

CHAPTER I.Introductory—Vigilance Committees.

24:18

CHAPTER II.THE SUNNY SIDE OF MOUNTAIN LIFE.

4:56

CHAPTER III.SETTLEMENT OF MONTANA.

3:11

CHAPTER IV.THE ROAD AGENTS.

7:09

CHAPTER V.THE DARK DAYS OF MONTANA.

18:18

CHAPTER VI.THE TRIAL.

4:35

CHAPTER VII.PLUMMER VERSUS CRAWFORD.

15:03

CHAPTER VIII.A CALENDAR OF CRIMES.

12:21

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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"

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~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

2022-05-21

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68146

Subjects

Frontier and pioneer life -- Montana Montana -- History -- 19th century Vigilance committees Plummer, Henry Amos, -1864 Criminals -- Montana F721

About the author

Thos. J. (Thomas Josiah) Dimsdale

d. 1866

An English-born teacher, musician, and newspaperman in early Montana, he is remembered for writing one of the territory’s foundational frontier books. His vivid account of vigilante justice helped shape how generations imagined Virginia City and the mining camps of the American West.

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