history of vigilante justice and the Montana Vigilantes began in 1863 in what was at the time a remote part of eastern Idaho Territory. Vigilante activities...
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Committee of Alder Gulch and the infamous Montana Vigilantes. Up to 15 road agents were hanged by the vigilantes in December 1863 and January 1864, including...
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Henry Plummer (category People from Beaverhead County, Montana)
Sheriff of Bannack, MT". Montana Historian. 1 (1): 52–61. Allen, Frederick (2009). A decent, orderly lynching : the Montana vigilantes. Norman: University...
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3-7-77 (category Pre-statehood history of Montana)
is a symbol originally used by the Montana Vigilantes, a 19th century vigilance committee in Virginia City, Montana, United States. When the numbers "3-7-77"...
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accused, informally tried, and hanged by the Vigilance Committee (the Montana Vigilantes) of Bannack and Virginia City. Nathaniel Pitt Langford, the first...
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Tenderfoot in Montana: Reminiscences of the Gold Rush, the Vigilantes, and the Birth of Montana Territory. Kenneth N. Owens, ed. Helena, Mont.: Montana Historical...
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Article VI, Section 11. Montana Constitution, Article VI, Section 12. 13 Stat. 85 Allen, Fredrick (Spring 2001). "Montana Vigilantes: and the Origins of the...
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Sidney Edgerton (category Governors of Montana Territory)
Territorial Governor of Montana. During his term as Territorial Governor, he was an alleged member of the infamous Montana Vigilantes, and was reputedly among...
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Boone Helm (category People executed by Montana by hanging)
in Montana History. The Globe Pequot Press. ISBN 0-7627-3624-0.[permanent dead link] Pace, Dick (1980). "The Spell of the West – Montana Vigilantes". Archived...
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Lynching: The Montana Vigilantes. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-3651-0. Dimsdale, Thomas J. (1915). The Vigilantes of Montana-or Popular...
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Clubfoot George (category 1864 in Montana Territory)
death. The execution was carried out by the Montana Vigilantes, a committee which functioned during Montana's gold rush in 1863 and 1864. Lane was born...
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Innocents (gang) (category Gangs in Montana)
Sheriff Henry Plummer of Bannack, Montana was accused of leading the group, and was executed by a group of vigilantes from Virginia City in January 1864...
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Plummer, the sheriff of Bannack, Montana, is hanged with two other alleged criminals for robbery and murder by Montana Vigilantes. 1864 – Jim Bridger guides...
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Nathaniel P. Langford (category Montana pioneers)
also part of the vigilante movement, the infamous Montana Vigilantes, that dealt with lawlessness in Virginia City and Bannack, Montana during 1863–64....
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Montana (/mɒnˈtænə/ mon-TAN-ə) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It borders Idaho to the west, North...
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Wilbur F. Sanders (category Montana Republicans)
extralegal activities in the territory. He was a founder of the infamous Montana Vigilantes, using his position as a lawyer to cover for the gang's summary murders...
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Vigilantism in the United States (category Vigilantes)
claimed was a vigilante group. Operating since 2002, perverted-justice.com opponents have accused the website of being modern-day cyber vigilantes. In a number...
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Stuart's Stranglers (category American vigilantes)
Stuart's Stranglers was a well-known vigilante group in Montana that was founded by wealthy ranchers in 1884 and led by Granville Stuart in response to...
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cattle rustlers roamed across various portions of Wyoming and Montana, with Montana vigilantes such as the infamous Stuart's Stranglers declaring "War on...
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Cyrus Skinner (category People from Montana)
in Bannack, Montana. Skinner, like many of his outlaw friends, was killed by the Montana Vigilantes. Thomas Dimsdale, editor of the Montana Post and author...
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Thomas Francis Meagher (category Governors of Montana Territory)
Allen, Fredrick (Spring 2001). "Montana Vigilantes: and the Origins of the 3-7-77". Governor of the State of Montana. Montana The Magazine of Western History...
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Granville Stuart (category People from Powell County, Montana)
leader, vigilante, author, cattleman and diplomat who played a prominent role in the early history of Montana Territory and the state of Montana. Widely...
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Powell County, Montana, United States. The population was 2,938 at the 2020 census. The city is perhaps best known as the home of the Montana State Prison...
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This is a list of the counties in the U.S. state of Montana. There are 56 counties in the state. Montana has two consolidated city-counties—Anaconda with...
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Miners' court (section Miners' Courts in Montana)
inefficient when the cases were criminal. This led to the rise of Montana Vigilantes. An especially inefficient court case is recounted in John X. Beidler's...
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player John X. Beidler, or simply "X. Beidler", associated with the Montana Vigilantes Philip Beidler (1944–2022), American professor of American literature...
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Chouteau County, Montana, United States. Established in 1846, Fort Benton is the oldest continuously occupied settlement in Montana. Fort Benton was the...
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name to the Western Montana Council (#320). In 1973, the Vigilante Area, Western Montana, Yellowstone Valley and North Central Montana councils all merged...
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Montana, former criminal Henry Plummer is made sheriff by the town's leaders, but his secret is revealed when the newly formed Montana Vigilantes find...
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Campy, Yet Surprisingly Interesting Cinema of Jon Hall". Filmiink. "The Vigilantes Return (1947) - IMDb". IMDb. The Vigilantes Return at IMDb v t e v t e...
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