Henry Plummer in Montana, 1862-1864
Author | : Louis Schmittroth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Outlaws |
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Author | : Louis Schmittroth |
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Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Outlaws |
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Author | : Ruth E. Mather |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : J. Holleman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Vigilance committees |
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Concerning Henry Plummer and the vigilante committees at Virginia City and Bannack, Montana, 1862-1864, with a letter to H.H. Bancroft.
Author | : Michael A. Leeson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1394 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Montana |
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Author | : Fielding H. Graves |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Montana |
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Author | : Dale L. Morgan |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
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Author | : Ed Ellsworth Bartholomew |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Crime and criminals |
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Author | : Frederick Allen |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2013-07-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806189886 |
The deadliest campaign of vigilante justice in American history erupted in the Rocky Mountains during the Civil War when a private army hanged twenty-one troublemakers. Hailed as great heroes at the time, the Montana vigilantes are still revered as founding fathers. Combing through original sources, including eye-witness accounts never before published, Frederick Allen concludes that the vigilantes were justified in their early actions, as they fought violent crime in a remote corner beyond the reach of government. But Allen has uncovered evidence that the vigilantes refused to disband after territorial courts were in place. Remaining active for six years, they lynched more than fifty men without trials. Reliance on mob rule in Montana became so ingrained that in 1883, a Helena newspaper editor advocated a return to “decent, orderly lynching” as a legitimate tool of social control. Allen’s sharply drawn characters, illustrated by dozens of photographs, are woven into a masterfully written narrative that will change textbook accounts of Montana’s early days—and challenge our thinking on the essence of justice.
Author | : Laura J. Arata |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2020-07-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 080616817X |
Winner of the Western Writers of America “SPUR Award” and the Western Association of Women Historians “Gita Chaudhuri Prize”! Born a slave in eastern Tennessee, Sarah Blair Bickford (1852–1931) made her way while still a teenager to Montana Territory, where she settled in the mining boomtown of Virginia City. Race and the Wild West is the first full-length biography of this remarkable woman, whose life story affords new insight into race and belonging in the American West around the turn of the twentieth century. For many years, Sarah Bickford’s known biography fit into a single paragraph. By examining her life in all its complexity, Arata fills in what were long believed to be unrecoverable “silent spaces” in her story. Before establishing herself as a successful business owner, we learn, she was twice married, both times to white men. Her first husband, an Irish immigrant, physically abused her until she divorced him in 1881. Their three children all died before the age of ten. In 1883, she married Stephen Bickford and gave birth to four more children. Upon his death, she inherited his shares of the Virginia City Water Company, acquiring sole ownership in 1917. For the final decade of her life, Bickford actively preserved and promoted a historic Virginia City building best known as the site of the brutal lynching in 1864 of five men. Her conspicuous role in developing an early form of heritage tourism challenges long-standing narratives that place white men at the center of the “Wild West” myth and its promotion. Bickford’s story offers a window into the dynamics of race in the rural West. Although her experiences defy easy categorization, what is clear is that her navigation of social norms and racial barriers did not hinge on exceptionalism or tokenism. Instead, she built a life that deserves to be understood on its own terms. Through exhaustive research and nuanced analysis, Laura J. Arata advances our understanding of a woman whose life embodied the contradictory intersections of hope and disappointment that characterized life in the early-twentieth-century American West for brave pioneers of many races.
Author | : Mary Ronan |
Publisher | : Montana Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780917298974 |
An account of one woman's life in the West during the second half of the nineteenth century from growing up on the Montana mining frontier to her ascent to young womanhood on a farm in southern California.