Vigilante Days and Ways / The pioneers of the Rockies; the makers and making of Montana and Idaho

by Nathaniel Pitt Langford

WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN LAYING

THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE

Empire

OF THE

New Great West.

“One of the chief temptations of the Devil is that he can persuade a man that he can write a book, by which he can achieve both wealth and fame.”—Cervantes.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
	Introduction	[xi]
I	Henry Plummer	[19]
II	Society in Lewiston	[26]
III	Northern Mines	[34]
IV	Charley Harper	[40]
V	Cherokee Bob	[45]
VI	Florence	[53]
VII	First Vigilance Committee	[60]
VIII	New Gold Discoveries	[64]
IX	Desertion of Mining Camps	[69]
X	Boone Helm	[74]
XI	Death of Charley Harper	[87]
XII	Pinkham and Patterson	[91]
XIII	Early Discoveries of Gold	[111]
XIV	Captain Fisk’s Expedition	[122]
XV	Bannack in 1862	[130]
XVI	Moore and Reeves	[137]
XVII	Crawford and Phleger	[148]
XVIII	Broadwater’s Stratagem	[163]
XIX	Organization of the Roughs	[171]
XX	A Masonic Funeral	[181]
XXI	Battle of Bear River	[195]
XXII	Alder Gulch	[206]
XXIII	Virginia City	[221]
XXIV	Coach Robberies	[232]
XXV	Leroy Southmayd	[244]
XXVI	Journey to Salt Lake City	[255]
XXVII	Col. Sanders and Gallagher	[266]
XXVIII	Robbery of Moody’s Train	[279]
XXIX	George Ives	[285]
XXX	Trial of George Ives	[298]
XXXI	Result of Ives’s Execution	[305]
XXXII	Lloyd Magruder	[318]
XXXIII	Hill Beachy	[331]
XXXIV	Howie and Fetherstun	[349]
XXXV	Execution of Plummer	[360]
XXXVI	Death of Pizanthia	[367]
XXXVII	Execution of Dutch John	[371]
XXXVIII	Virginia City Executions	[374]
XXXIX	Pursuit of Road Agents	[389]
XL	Execution of Hunter	[400]
XLI	The Stranger’s Story	[407]
XLII	White and Dorsett	[420]
XLIII	Langford Peel	[429]
XLIV	Joseph A. Slade	[441]
XLV	A Modern Haman	[463]
XLVI	James Daniels	[473]
XLVII	David Opdyke	[476]
XLVIII	San Andreas in 1849	[485]
XLIX	An Interesting Adventure	[492]
L	The Stage Coach	[517]
LI	Retrospection	[537]
	Index	[545]

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