The vigilantes of Montana
Series: March of America facsimile series
Publisher: University Microfilms
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Ann Arbor [Mich.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Crime -- Montana.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Montana.; Vigilance committees -- Montana.; Montana -- History.
First sentence: The end of all good government is the safety and happiness of the governed.
Notes: Original t. p. reads: 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 crioes of many of the robbers and desperadoes, the whole being interspersed with sketches of life in the mining camps of the "Far West" ... by Prof. Thos. J. Dimsdale. Virginia City, M. T., Montana Post Press, D. W. Tilton & Co., Book and Job Printers, 1866.