Vigilantes of Montana

by Thomas Dimsdale, Ruth Mather

Overview

Gold, land, jealousy, and murder—all are elements of this classic tale of the Montana Territory, written in 1864 as a vindication of the actions of the Vigilantes who hanged Sheriff William Henry Handy Plumer of Bannack, Montana.
Now beautifully reprinted with a foreword by R. E. Mather, prominent Western historian and co-author of Hanging the Sheriff, A Biography of Henry Plummer, readers can delve into the history behind Montana's rough beginnings for themselves and uncover the controversy behind the legend of the Vigilantes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762725687
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	04/01/2003
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Professor Thomas J. Dimsdale was an Englishman who came to Virginia City, Montana, at the height of the 1860s gold rush in search of a better climate for his health. He ended up embroiled in one of the great controversies in Montana history as the author of The Vigilantes of Montana, a work protesting his own innocence as well as that of the vigilantes in the death of Henry Plummer.

Western historian R. E. Mather is co-author of Hanging the Sheriff: A Biography of Henry Plummer.