Title:
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, Together 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"
Author:
Dimsdale, Thomas J[osiah]
Place:
Virginia City, M.T.
Description:
241 pp. 6¾x5, original printed wrappers. Second Edition.
Second edition of Dimsdale's important book chronicling the lawlessness of early Montana and the remedies the good citizens resorted to, first published in 1866 by the same publisher, the first book printed in Montana. Adams Six-guns 596; Graff 1088; Howes D345; Smith 2458.
Lot Amendments
Condition:
Slight creasing and extremity wear to wrappers, a few tiny edge chips, pencil name to front wrapper dated 1905; very good or better condition, a fragile book rarely found much nicer.
