Vigilantes

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 has some very slight wear to spine ends and spine is very lightly sunned. Signed presentation by author on half-title.

Inventory Number: 52460