INTRODUCTION
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[1] Hugh D. Graham and Ted R. Gurr, eds., The History of Violence in America:
A Report Submitted to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence
(New York: Frederick A. Prager, 1969).
[2] Joaquin Miller, An Illustrated History of the State of Montana (Chicago: Lewis
Publishing Company, 1894), 258, 259.
[3] Nathaniel Langford, Vigilante Days and Ways (New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1912), xiii.
[4] Lew L. Callaway, Montana's Righteous Hangmen (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982), 5.
[5] Thomas J. Dimsdale, The Vigilantes of Montana (Butte: McKee Printing
Company, 1945), 195; Thomas J. Dimsdale, "The Banditti of the Rocky Mountains and the Vigilance Committee of Idaho, Etc.," Thomas J. Dimsdale Papers,
SC. 630, Montana Historical Society Archives, Helena, 2.
[6] Washington Stapleton, "Statement," Montana Miscellany, MS., H. H.
Bancroft Collection, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2.
[7] Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 252.