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1. Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 266; Union Vedette , 4 February 1864; Langford, Vigilante Days, 185.
2. People v. Williams , Idaho Territory Supreme Court, August 1866.
3. Boise News , 2 January 1864.
4. Langford, Vigilante Days , 370.
5. Fred S. Cook, ed., Historic Legends of El Dorado County (Volcano, Calif.: California Traveler, 1974), 32.
6. , CalifHistory of Placer Countyornia (Oakland: Thompson & West, 1882), 332-33.
7. Deseret News , 8 October 1862.
8. Langford, Vigilante Days , 22-26.
9. Daily Oregonian , 11 November 1862 and 1 January 1863.
10. For Charley Harper's story see R. E. Mather and F. E. Boswell, Gold Camp Desperadoes (San Jose, Calif.: History West Publishing, 1990). For evidence of Plummer's arrival and departure dates see Mather and Boswell, Hanging the Sheriff , 175 -- 79.
11. Peltier, 123.
12. Callaway, 20; Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 16, 133, 171; Langford, Vigilante Days , 233; Bruffey, 39; A. K. McClure, Three Thousand Miles Through The Rocky Mountains (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1869), 229.
13. McClure, 229.
14. Langford, Vigilante Days , xii.
15. Oregon Statesman , 23 May 1864; Thane, 74.
16. Sacramento Daily Union , 15 February 1864; Langford, Vigilante Days , 367.
17. Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 252-53.
18. Ibid., 132-33; Sanders, Beidler , 85; Langford, Vigilante Days , 315; Callaway, 60.
19. Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 133.
20. Langford, Vigilante Days , 90.
21. I daho World , 3 September 1865; "Correspondence," Nathaniel Langford Papers, SC. 215, Montana Historical Society Archives.
22. Sanders, History , 1: 581; William Y. Pemberton, "Pioneer Courts," Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana (Helena: Montana Historical and Miscellaneous Library, 1917), 8: 99.
23. Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 5, 13, 38; "Early Court Records of Beaverhead County, Montana," in Noyes, Dimsdale's Vigilantes , 224; Pfouts, 99.
24. Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 15, 165; Langford, Vigilante Days , 257.
25. Pfouts, 99, 100.
26. Ibid., 96; Langford, Vigilante Days , 134-35, 374.
27. Langford, Vigilante Days , 224; Pfouts, 96; Stuart, 222; Kohrs, Autobiography , 35.
28. Langford, Vigilante Days , 436; McClure, 229.
29. Michael Leeson, History of Montana 1739-1885 (Chicago: Warner, Beers & Company, 1885), 265; Richard Maxwell Brown, "The American Vigilante Tradition," in Graham and Gurr, 168-69; Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 256, 268.
30. For a discussion of Dimsdale's influence on later writers see Clyde A.
Milner, "Shared Memory of Montana's Pioneers," Montana: The Magazine of Western History 37 (Winter 1987) 1: 8-9.
31. Michael P: Malone and Richard B. Roeder, Montana: A History of Two Centuries (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1976), 64.
32. Langford, Vigilante Days , 132, 148; Kohrs, Autobiography , 23; Kohrs, "Statement," 1-2.
33. Malone and Roeder, 57; Stuart, 224.
34. Stapleton, 2; "The Vigilante Oath," Unidentified Newspaper Article, in Vigilante Vertical File, Montana Historical Society Archives.
35. Emily Dickinson, "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant," Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1961), 248; Sanders, History , 1: 219; Ronan, 25; Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 224; Kohrs, Autobiography , 35.
36. Sanders, Beidler , xii, 82 -- 83; Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 94; William Herron, Unidentified Newspaper Article, in Sanders, Beidler , 37; Callaway, 60.
37. Merrill G. Burlingame, "Montana's Righteous Hangmen: A Reconsideration," Montana: The Magazine of Western History 28 (October 1978) 4: 39.
38. Dimsdale, "The Banditti," 2; Ronan, 23.
39. Ronan, 23; Tom Baker, "Thomas Josiah Dimsdale," in Noyes, Dimsdale's Vigilantes , 6.
40. Blake, 4: 39.
41. Callaway, 5; Langford, Vigilante Days , 90, 538.
42. Dimsdale, "The Banditti," 2.
43. Baker, 5-7.
44. Baker, 5-7; Montana Post (Virginia City), 5 May 1866.
45. Eighth and Ninth Census of U.S.: 1860 and 1870 Population Schedules of Washington County , Maine; Langford, Vigilante Days , 365-66.
46. Langford, Vigilante Days , 90.
47. Albert Schweitzer, "Reverence for Life," in Randall E. Decker, Patterns of Exposition (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974), 195.