Vigilantes

HOFFMAN BIRNEY

Other works by HOFFMAN BIRNEY

Publication: The Penn Publishing Company, 1929, Philadelphia

First edition. 8vo. Cloth, decorated front and rear endpapers, 346 pp., frontis., foreword, illustrated. Illustrations by Charles Hargens. A chronicle of the rise and fall of the Plummer gang of outlaws in and about Virginia City, Montana in the early 1860's. On page 340 there is a picture of the "Hangman's Tree," which claimed the lives of 13 outlaws in Helena during Vigilante days. A fine, bright copy. Scarce dust jacket is price-clipped, has 2 small chips at spine ends and 2 half-inch closed tears to top edge of front panel, else fine and bright.

Inventory Number: 53965