Bibliography


BOOKS

Birney, Hoffman. Vigilantes . Philadelphia: Penn Publishing, 1929.
"Bradley Manuscript." Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana 8. Helena: State Publishing, 1917.
Bruffey, George A. Eighty-One Years in the West . Butte: Butte Miner Printers, 1925.
Callaway, Lew L. Montana's Righteous Hangmen . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982.
Clark, Barzilla W. Bonneville County in the Making . Idaho Falls: Author, 1941.
Codman, John. The Round Trip by Way of Panama . New York: Putnam's Sons, 1879.
Cushman, Dan. Montana: The Gold Frontier . Great Falls: Stay Away, Joe, Publishers, 1973.
Davis, Sam P., ed. The History of Nevada . Reno: Elms Publishing, 1913.
Defenbach, Byron. Idaho: The Place and Its People . 2 vols. Chicago: American Historical Society, 1933.
Dimsdale, Thomas J. The Vigilantes of Montana . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1953.
Directory of San Francisco for 1853 . Sutro Library, San Francisco.
Drago, Harry S. Road Agents and Train Robbers . New York: Dodd Mead, 1973.
French, Hiram T. History of Idaho . Chicago: Lewis Publishing, 1914.
History of Nevada County, California . Berkeley: Howell-North, 1970.
Howard, Sarah Wadams. "Reminiscences of a Pioneer." Souvenir Booklet Commemorating Bannack, First Territorial Capital of Montana , Dedication and Pageant, 15 August 1954, Montana Historical Society Archives.
Howe, Henry. "Hancock County." Historical Collections of Ohio . Cincinnati: C. J. Krehbiel, 1900.
Johnson, Dorothy M. The Bloody Bozeman: The Perilous Trail to Montana's Gold. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971.
Langford, Nathaniel Pitt. Vigilante Days and Ways . 2 vols. Boston: J. G.
Guppies, 1890.
McClure, A. C. "Wilbur Fisk Sanders." Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana 8. Helena: State Publishing, 1917.
McLemore, Clyde, ed. "Bannack and Gallatin City in 1862-1863: A Let- ter by Mrs. Emily R. Meredith." In Historical Reprints . Missoula: Montana State University, n. d.
Miller, James. The Road to Virginia City: The Diary of James knox Polk Miller. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press , 1960.
Pauley, Arthur. Henry Plummer: Lawman and Outlaw . White Sulphur Springs, Montana: The Meagher County News, 1980.
Peltier, Jerome, ed. The Banditti of the Rocky Mountains and Vigilance Committee in Idaho. Minneapolis: Ross and Haines, 1964.
Perley, Sidney. The Plumer Genealogy . Salem: Essex Institute, 1917.
Porter, E. J. "Article." Helena Independent . 24 March 1886. In Helen Sanders, ed. X. Beidler: Vigilante . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957.
Rasmussen, Louis J. San Francisco Ship Passenger Lists . Baltimore: Dedford, 1965.
Ronan, Margaret. Frontier Woman: The Story of Mary Ronan . Edited by H. G.
Merriam. Missoula: University of Montana, 1973.
Sanders, Helen F. A History of Montana . Chicago: Lewis Publishing, 1913.
Sanders, Helen F., ed. X. Beidler: Vigilante . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957.
Sanders, Wilbur F. "The Story of George Ives." In Helen Sanders, ed.
X. Beidler: Vigilante . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957.
Stuart, Granville. Forty Years on the Frontier . Edited by Paul C. Phillips.
Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark, 1925.
Sweely, Royal G. Wakonda Community History . Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Genealogical Library, n. d.
Thane, James L., Jr. A Governor's Wife on the Mining Frontier: The Letters of Mary Edgerton from Montana, 1863-1865 . Salt Lake City: University of Utah Library, 1976.
Toole, K. Ross. Montana: An Uncommon Land . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959.
Toponce, Alexander. Reminiscences of Alexander Toponce . Salt Lake City: Katie Toponce, Century Printing, 1923.
Webster, N. H. "Journal of N. H. Webster." Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana 3. Helena: State Publishing, 1900.

ARTICLES AND NEWSPAPERS

Boise News . 1864.
"Fabulous Florence." Idaho Yesterday's 6 (1962) 2: 23-31.
Kildare, Maurice. "Henry Plummer's Golden Loot." Frontier Times , April-May 1965, 6-58.
Montana Post . 1865.
Morning Transcript (Nevada City, California). 1861.
Nevada Democrat (Nevada City, California). 1853-1862.
Nevada Journal (Nevada City, California). 1853-1862.
Sacramento Daily Union . 1857 -- 1864.
Smurr, J. W. "Afterthoughts on the Vigilantes." Montana: Magazine of Western History 8 (1958) 2: 8-20.
Thompson, Francis. "Reminiscences of Four Score Years." Massachusetts Magazine 5 Supplement (January 1912) 1: 141-67; 6 (July 1913) 3, (October 1913) 4: 114-90; 7 (January 1914) 1: 11-29.
Wakonda Monitor (Wakonda, South Dakota). 1912.
Wilkins, James H. "The Evolution of a State Prison." San Francisco Bulletin , 1 and 6 July 1918.

UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL

Bessette, Amede. "The Last Bandit Hanged in Bannack by the Vigilantes." TS., Montana Historical Society Archives.
Davis, Walter N. "Hung for Contempt of Court." Handwritten MS., SC.
1826, Montana Historical Society Archives.
French, George D. "Carpentry Receipt." SC. 297, Montana Historical Society Archives.
Getchell Family Records , Hannah Weston Chapter of DAR, Machias, Maine.
Grannis, John W. "Diary-1863-1864." 2 books. TS., Montana Historical Society Archives.
Graves, Fielding H. "The Gallows and Grave of Henry Plummer." TS., Montana Historical Society Archives.
Harris, Arthur. Letter to Hoffman Birney, n. d. Montana Historical So- ciety Archives.
Holleman, J. Statement to H. H. Bancroft, 1 September 1887. Handwrit- ten MS., H. H. Bancroft Collection, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Luna House Register . Luna House Museum, Nez Perce County Historical Society, Lewiston, Idaho.
Maxwell, Russell. Letter to Harold W. Plummer, n. d. Quoted by Harold W. Plummer in Letter to Arthur Pauley, 19 August 1980.
McLatchy, Michael. "From Wisconsin to Montana and Life in the West, 1863-1889: The Reminiscences of Robert Kirkpatrick." Dissertation, Montana State University, 1961.
Pemberton, William Y. "A Short Reminiscence" and "Notes of W. Y.
Pemberton's Lecture before Unity Club, May 12, 1908." William Y.
Pemberton Papers. SC. 629, Montana Historical Society Archives.
Plassmann, Martha Edgerton. "Judge Edgerton's Daughter." MS. 78, Montana Historical Society Archives.
__________. "Unidentified Article." Quoted in Hoffman Birney. Vigilantes.
Philadelphia: Penn Publishing, 1929.
Plummer, Harold W. Letter to Ruth Morgan. 9 January 1985.
Plummer, Henry. Henry Plummer Collection Unidentified Account and Pencil Sketch. SC. 651, Montana Historical Society Archives.
Henry Plummer File Unidentified News Articles. Montana Historical Society Archives.
Plummer Family Records. Film at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Genealogical Library, Salt Lake City.
Sanders, Harriet. "Reminiscences of My Trip Across the Plains and of My Early Life in Montana." SC. 1254, Montana Historical Society Archives.
Sanders, Wilbur F. "Early History of Montana." MS., Montana Historical Society Archives.
__________. "Notes to H. H. Bancroft." Handwritten MS., H. H. Bancroft Collection, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Stafford, Mrs., and Mrs. Slattery. Letter to David Hilger, n. d. Montana Historical Society Archives.
Thibadeau, Matilda Dalton. Matilda Dalton Thibadeau Papers. SC. 835, Montana Historical Society Archives.

PUBLIC DOCUMENTS

California. Census of 1853.
California. Governor's File on Henry Plummer. California State Archives, Sacramento.
California. Register and Descriptive List of Convicts Under Sentence of Imprisonment in the State Prison . California State Archives, Sacramento.
California. Reports . Supreme Court Term 1858 and 1859. Vols. IX and XII. State Law Library, Sacramento.
California. Trial Records of The People of the State of California vs. Henry Plumer in Nevada County in 1857 and The People vs. Henry Plummer in Yuba County in 1858. California State Archives, Sacramento.
California. Nevada County Deed Records.
Maine. Addison Town Records.
Maine. Alna Town Records.
Maine. Machias Vital Records. Hannah Weston Chapter of DAR.
Maine. Washington County Court and Marriage Records.
New Hampshire. Belknap County Marriage Records.
Ohio. Hancock County Court and Marriage Records.
South Dakota. Clay County Deed Records.
U. S. Bureau of the Census. Sixth Census of U.S.: 1840 Population Schedule .
__________. Seventh Census of U.S.: 1850 Population Schedule .
__________. Eighth Census of U.S.: 1860 Population Schedule .
__________. Ninth Census of U.S.: 1870 Population Schedule .
__________. Tenth Census of U.S.: 1880 Population Schedule .
__________. Twelfth Census of U.S.: 1900 Population Schedule .

 

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