The Vigilantes of California, Idaho and Montana
"Experience in a mining camp beyond the reach of law...an article...by John W. Clampitt." Blue-Grass Blade, July 11, 1909
"Clampitt's 'The Vigilantes of California, Idaho, and Montana' is...a readable and instructive contribution." -Hartford Courant, July 25, 1891
What role did "Vigilance Committees" play in the history of the settlement of the West?
In 1891, famed attorney John Wesley Clampitt (1839-1906) answers this question in his short 35-page work titled, "The Vigilantes of California, Idaho and Montana."
In discussing this topic, Clampitt writes:
"A tide of immigration...poured in from all directions, and with it came the bad as well as the good; and among the former were the desperadoes....[T]he honest men of the Territory, who, when they found they could not apply the forms of law in a community where the written law was a dead letter, or had never existed, maintained the right with their own strong hands to subdue the brute force of violence..."
About the author:
John Wesley Clampitt (1839-1906) was one of the lawyers who unsuccessfully defended Mary Surratt in connection with the murder of Abraham Lincoln.
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"Clampitt's 'The Vigilantes of California, Idaho, and Montana' is...a readable and instructive contribution." -Hartford Courant, July 25, 1891
What role did "Vigilance Committees" play in the history of the settlement of the West?
In 1891, famed attorney John Wesley Clampitt (1839-1906) answers this question in his short 35-page work titled, "The Vigilantes of California, Idaho and Montana."
In discussing this topic, Clampitt writes:
"A tide of immigration...poured in from all directions, and with it came the bad as well as the good; and among the former were the desperadoes....[T]he honest men of the Territory, who, when they found they could not apply the forms of law in a community where the written law was a dead letter, or had never existed, maintained the right with their own strong hands to subdue the brute force of violence..."
About the author:
John Wesley Clampitt (1839-1906) was one of the lawyers who unsuccessfully defended Mary Surratt in connection with the murder of Abraham Lincoln.
The Vigilantes of California, Idaho and Montana
"Experience in a mining camp beyond the reach of law...an article...by John W. Clampitt." Blue-Grass Blade, July 11, 1909
"Clampitt's 'The Vigilantes of California, Idaho, and Montana' is...a readable and instructive contribution." -Hartford Courant, July 25, 1891
What role did "Vigilance Committees" play in the history of the settlement of the West?
In 1891, famed attorney John Wesley Clampitt (1839-1906) answers this question in his short 35-page work titled, "The Vigilantes of California, Idaho and Montana."
In discussing this topic, Clampitt writes:
"A tide of immigration...poured in from all directions, and with it came the bad as well as the good; and among the former were the desperadoes....[T]he honest men of the Territory, who, when they found they could not apply the forms of law in a community where the written law was a dead letter, or had never existed, maintained the right with their own strong hands to subdue the brute force of violence..."
About the author:
John Wesley Clampitt (1839-1906) was one of the lawyers who unsuccessfully defended Mary Surratt in connection with the murder of Abraham Lincoln.
"Clampitt's 'The Vigilantes of California, Idaho, and Montana' is...a readable and instructive contribution." -Hartford Courant, July 25, 1891
What role did "Vigilance Committees" play in the history of the settlement of the West?
In 1891, famed attorney John Wesley Clampitt (1839-1906) answers this question in his short 35-page work titled, "The Vigilantes of California, Idaho and Montana."
In discussing this topic, Clampitt writes:
"A tide of immigration...poured in from all directions, and with it came the bad as well as the good; and among the former were the desperadoes....[T]he honest men of the Territory, who, when they found they could not apply the forms of law in a community where the written law was a dead letter, or had never existed, maintained the right with their own strong hands to subdue the brute force of violence..."
About the author:
John Wesley Clampitt (1839-1906) was one of the lawyers who unsuccessfully defended Mary Surratt in connection with the murder of Abraham Lincoln.
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| BN ID: | 2940185744314 |
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| Publisher: | Far West Travel Adventure |
| Publication date: | 07/21/2022 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 363 KB |
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