Title: The Montana Vigilantes 1863–1870: Gold,Guns and Gallows
Description: Historians and novelists alike have described the vigilantism that took root in the gold-mining communities of Montana in the mid-1860s, but Mark C. Dillon is the first to examine the subject through the prism of American legal history, considering the state of criminal justice and law enforcement in the western territories and also trial procedures, gubernatorial politics, legislative enactments, and constitutional rights.
Subjects: Montana, history, Gold mines and mining, united states, Criminal law, montana, Vigilance committees, History, Vigilantes, Outlaws, Administration of Criminal justice, Frontier and pioneer life