A Decent, Orderly Lynching: The Montana VigilantesThe definitive account of the deadliest episode of vigilante justice in American history. Leather Bound, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 41 b&w illustrations, 3 maps. |
Contents
The Murdered Boy | 3 |
Maine to California | 17 |
A Seducer on Trial | 38 |
Wooing Electa Bryan | 57 |
The New Sheriff | 77 |
The Dillingham Killing | 89 |
CutThroats and Robbers | 109 |
The Reluctant Chief Justice | 122 |
One Hundred and Two | 254 |
Slade of the Overland | 273 |
The Wounded Man Recovered | 290 |
No More Midnight Executions | 308 |
Thomas Francis Meagher | 324 |
Pax Vigilanticus | 345 |
Epilogue | 361 |
Targets of the Montana Vigilantes | 365 |
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