THE FIRST TWO HANGINGS
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1. Charles Beehrer, "Reminiscences," in Alva J. Noyes, Dimsdale's Vigilantes of
Montana: A Contemporary History of the Treasure State (Helena: State Publishing Company, n.d.), 266-67; Callaway, 52-53.
2. "Nelson Story Sr.," Fergus County Argus (Lewistown, Mont.), 18 April 1918.
3. Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 126.
4. James Harkness, "Diary," Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana (Helena: State Publishing Company, 1896), 2: 353 -- 56.
5. Beehrer, 265-67.
6. Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 126; James Williams, "Reminiscences," SC. 975, Montana Historical Society Archives, 3-4; Callaway, 9 -- 10.
7. Beehrer, 267; Fallon County Times (Baker, Mont.), 21 December 1936.
8. Beehrer, 268.
9. Callaway, 54.
10. Callaway, 3; Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 128 -- 29.
11. Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 129-30; Callaway, 56.
12. Langford, Vigilante Days , 313, 383; Jerome Peltier, ed., The Banditti of the
Rocky Mountains and Vigilance Committee in Idaho (Minneapolis: Ross and Haines,
1964), 103.
13. Granville Stuart, Prospecting for Gold , ed. Paul C. Phillips (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1977), 174.
14. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Eighth Census of U.S.: 1860 Population Schedule
of Brown County, Minnesota ; Helen McCann White, ed., "1862-67 Wagon Train
Rosters," in Ho! For the Gold Fields (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1966),
263; Langford, Vigilante Days , 316; Williams, "Reminiscences," 2.
15. Callaway, 57; Dimsdale, Vigilantes, 131; Langford, Vigilante Days , 313.
16. Dimsdale, Vigilantes, 131-32; Callaway, 139.
17. Callaway, 57, 60; Langford, Vigilante Days , 314.
18. The account of the hanging of Red Yeager and George Brown is a
composite drawn from Helen F. Sanders, ed., X. Beidler: Vigilante (Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1957), 85; Walter N. Davis, "Hung for Contempt of Court," Handwritten MS., SC. 1826, Montana Historical Society
Archives, 11; Callaway, 60; Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 132-36; Langford, Vigilante Days ,
314 -- 17.
19. James Williams, "Statement," Handwritten MS., Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1; Seventh Census of U.S.: 1850 Population Schedule of
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
20. Fred Lockley, Vigilante Days at Virginia City: Personal Narrative of Colonel
Henry E. Dosch (Portland, Oreg.: Published by Author, 1924), 12.
21. See note 18 above.
22. Ibid.
23. Langford, Vigilante Days , 316.
24. See note 18 above.
25. Stuart, 29n.
26. Red Yeager's words are a condensation of quotations from Langford, Vigilante Days , 317, and Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 135.
27. Seventh Census of U.S.: 1850 Population Schedule of Muscatine County, Iowa;
Sixth Census of U.S.: 1840 Population Schedule of Tippecanoe County, Indiana ; Stuart, 24.
28. Stuart, 27-29.
29. Ibid., 29.
30. Ibid., 25, 28; Seventh Census of U.S.: 1850 Population Schedule of Muscatine
County, Iowa.
31. Marriage Records of Vermillion County, Indiana; Court Records of Cedar
County, Iowa; "Voting List," Hawkeye Heritage 6 July 1969) 3: 133.
32. Court Records of Cedar County, Iowa; Eighth Census of U.S.: 1860 Population Schedules of Chase County, Kansas and Thurston County, Washington.
33. History of Thurston County, Washington (Olympia: J. C. Rathbun, 1895), 45,
48, 53, 69.
34. B. F. Manring, "Recollections of a Pioneer of 1859," Oregon Historical Society Quarterly , 11 (March 1910) 1: 168 -- 69.
35. The History of Cedar County (Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Historical Publishing
Company, 1901), 361-63.
36. Francis Thompson, "Reminiscences of Four Score Years," Massachusetts
Magazine, 6 July 1913) 3: 122-23.
37. Ibid.; Helen F. Sanders, A History of Montana (Chicago: Lewis Publishing,
1913), 1: 190 -- 92.
38. Sanders, 1: 190-92.
39. The History of Cedar County, 560, 572.
40. Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 135.
41. Ibid., 135-36.
42. Stuart, 26-29; Western News (Westby, Mont.), 27 October 1918.
43. Callaway, 61; Williams, "Statement," 1.
44. Langford, Vigilante Days , 538; Callaway, 5.
45. "Suicide of Capt. Williams," Madisonian (Virginia City, Mont.), 25 February 1887.