The Vigilantes Of Montana, Or, Popular Justice In The Rocky Mountains. Being A Correct And Impartial Narrative Of The Chase, Trial, Capture, And Execution Of Henry Plummer's Road Agent Band. T0gether With Accounts Of The Lives And Crimes Of Many Of The Robbers And Desperadoes, The Whole Being Interspersed With Sketches Of Life In The Mining Camps Of The "Far West."

PROF THOS J DIMSDALE

Publication: D W Tilton, Publisher, 1882, Virginia City, MT

Second Edition. 12mo. Original Grey Printed Wrappers, 241 [1] pp., Preface. Six Guns 596 says, "The original edition is said to be the first book produced by a printing press in Montana. Perhaps no book excels Dimsdale's in presenting the picture of lawless conditions that characterized the mining camps of the Rocky Mountain country." Howes D345 says, "Not only the first, but textually the most important book ever printed in Montana." "A famous western outlaw book, describing the organized lawlessness in Montana Territory in 1863-64 and its suppression by vigilantes led by Granville Stuart and other pioneer cattlemen of the Territory. It is also the first substantive book printed in Montana, and the first important book about outlaw types in the Rocky Mountain West".--Bill Reese, The Best Of The West-168. Three small stains along spine caused by aged short strips of cellophane tape, and light chipping to fore-edges, else a near-fine copy

Inventory Number: 53265