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A Decent, Orderly Lynching. The Montana Vigilantes FREDERICK ALLEN

A Decent, Orderly Lynching. The Montana Vigilantes

FREDERICK ALLEN

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Publication: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004, Norman

First edition. 8vo. Limited to 250 numbered and signed copies by the author, with this being copy 141. Cloth, titles stamped in copper gilt on the front cover and spine, brown front and rear endpapers, xxiv, 421 pp., all edges gilt, author's note, illustrated mostly from photographs, facsimiles, portraits,maps, epilogue, appendix, notes on sources, notes, bibliography, acknowledgments, index. Discussions and tales of vigilante justice in the Montana foothills of the Rocky Mountains during the first six weeks of 1864. "The deadliest campaign of vigilante justice in American history erupted in the gold camps of the Rocky Mountains during the Civil War, when a private army hanged twenty-one troublemakers, including a rogue sheriff. Hailed as great heroes at the time, the Montana vigilantes are still revered as founding fathers who brought order to a lawless land." Author and historian, Frederick Allen, concludes the vigilantes were justified in their early actions, as they fought crime in a remote corner hundreds of miles beyond the reach of government. But the author has uncovered evidence that the vigilantes refused to disband after territorial courts were in place. Remaining active for more than six years, they lynched more than fifty men without the benefit of trials. Many of the targets of the vigilantes were found to be not guilty of any crimes at all. The photographs that illustrate this book are excellent and historically important. As new, unread copy without dust jacket, as issued.

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