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1. Callaway, 61, 122; Langford, Vigilante Days , 360.
2. Thompson, 6 (October 1913) 4: 179.
3. Wilbur F. Sanders, "The Story of George Ives," in Sanders, Beidler , 72; Sanders, History , 1: 194n.
4. Callaway, 56.
5. Sanders, Beidler , 83; Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 145-46.
6. Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 145-46; Thompson, 6 (October 1913) 4: 179-80.
7. Sanders, Beidler , 24; Helena Daily Herald , 8 and 10 February 1890.
8. Helena Daily Herald , 8 and 10 February 1890; Seventh Census of U.S.: 1850 Population Schedule of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania ; Sanders, Beidler , 3-10.
9. Sanders, Beidler , 22, 32; John Grannis, "Diary," SC. 301, Montana Historical Society Archives, Book I, p. 11.
10. Sanders, Beidler , 32, 95.
11. Callaway, 135, 176; Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 216.
12. Washington Statesman (Walla Walla), 2 May 1863.
13. William D. Mangam, The Clarks of Montana (Published in U.S.A., 1939), 26.
14. E. J. Porter, "The Hanging of Plummer, Stinson, and Ray," Helena Independent , 24 March 1886.
15. Henry Gannett, "The Vigilantes of Montana," The Californian 6 (October 1882) 34: 364; Sanders, History , 1: 192 -- 93; Martha Edgerton Plassmann, "Judge Edgerton's Daughter," MS. 78, Montana Historical Society Archives, 122.
16. Langford, Vigilante Days , 358.
17. Nathaniel Langford, Letter, Addressee and date illegible, Nathaniel Langford Papers, SC. 215, Montana Historical Society Archives.
18. Sanders, "George Ives," 46, 62.
19. Plassmann, 130; William Y. Pemberton, "Early Day Courts and Judges," Reporter (Glentana, Mont.), 12 November 1917.
20. Plassmann, 125, 145.
21. Porter; James Kirkpatrick, "Story," in Noyes, Dimsdale's Vigilantes , 236; Langford, Vigilante Days , 225-26.
22. Callaway, 21; Sanders, Beidler , 29.
23. Unidentified Pencil Sketch, SC. 651, Montana Historical Society Archives; Kirkpatrick, 236; Sixth Census of U.S.: 1840 Population Schedule of Henry County, Indiana; Seventh Census of U.S.: 1850 Population Schedule of Andrew County, Missouri.
24. Langford, Vigilante Days , 365.
25. Eighth Census of U.S.: 1860 Population Schedule of Andrew County, Missouri ; "List of Early Settlers," Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana (Helena: Rocky Mountain Publishing, 1876), 1: 308; Mangam, 15.
26. Mable Ovitt, Golden Treasure (Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1925), 250; Judith Basin County Press (Stanford, Mont.), 27 July 1936.
27. Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 19 November 1862; "Correspondence from Mines," Rocky Mountain News (Denver), 13 March and 24 April 1863; "Letter from the Mines," Tri-Weekly Miners' Register (Central City, Colo.), 9 February 1863.
28. David L. Crowder, Tendoy: Chief of the Lemhis (Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1969), 44-45; Sacramento Daily Union , 17 June 1863.
29. Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 73-74; Langford, Vigilante Days , 211 -- 18.
30. Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 78-80.
31. Kirkpatrick, 236-37.
32. W. B. Carter, "Story," in Noyes, Dimsdale's Vigilantes , 229-30; Alexander Toponce, Reminiscences of Alexander Toponce (Salt Lake City: Katie Toponce, Century Printing, 1923), 73 -- 74.
33. Thompson, 6 (October 1913) 4: 181.
34. Plassmann, 134.
35. Alva J. Noyes, The Story of Ajax (New York: Buffalo-Head Press, 1966), 85.
36. Kirkpatrick, 236; Nevada Democrat (Nevada City, Calif.), 2 January 1862.
37. Noyes, Ajax , 85.
38. Eighth Census of U.S.: 1860 Population Schedule of Solano County, California ; Desert News, 8 April and 13 May 1863.
39. Deseret News , 15 April 1863.
40. Ibid., 29 April 1863.
41. Ibid., 15 and 29 April 1863.
42. Ibid., 3 June 1863.
43. Ibid., 13 May 1863.
44. Ibid.
45. Ibid.
46. Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 266.
47. For details of Plummer's life see R. E. Mather and F. E. Boswell, Hanging the Sheriff A Biography of Henry Plummer (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1987).
48. Kirkpatrick, 236.
49. Sanders, Beidler , 84; Sanders, "George Ives," 62-63.
50. Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 25.
51. Alta California (San Francisco), 22 May 1852.
52. Governor's File on Francis Van Moore, California State Archives, Sacramento.
53. Governor's File on Henry Plummer , California State Archives; Mining Claims of Nevada County, California; William S. Shiach and Harry B. Averill, An Illustrated History of North Idaho (n.p.: Western Historical Publishing, 1903), 30.
54. Conrad Kohrs, "Statement," SC. 222, Montana Historical Society Archives, 2.
55. Conrad Kohrs, An Autobiography (Deer Lodge, Mont.: Platen Press, 1977), 28; "Early County Records," Tribune (Dillon, Mont.), 13 January 1928; Langford, Vigilante Days , 244.
56. Frank Woody, "A Story of Plummer," Madisonian, 1 January 1915; Kohrs, Autobiography, 28; Langford, Vigilante Days, 225-26.
57. "Early County Records," Tribune , 13 January 1928.
58. Nathaniel Langford, "Correspondence," Nathaniel Langford Papers, SC.
215, Montana Historical Society Archives; Sanders, History , 1: 188-89.
59. Patrick Duane, "Recollections," in Vigilante Vertical File, Montana Historical Society Archives.
60. "Early Court Records of Beaverhead County, Montana," in Noyes, Dimsdale's Vigilantes , 207: "Early County Records," Tribune , 13 January 1928.
61. Plassmann, 125; Thompson, 6 (October 1913) 4: 181-82; Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 148.
62. Langford, Vigilante Days , 362.
63. Porter; Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 148-49; Noyes, Ajax, 85.
64. Langford, Vigilante Days , 363; Porter.
65. Porter; Langford, Vigilante Days , 364; Great Falls Tribune (Great Falls, Mont.), 2 September 1930.
66. Noyes, Ajax , 85-86; Banner (Circle, Mont.), 30 June 1932; Sarah Wadams Howard, "Reminiscences of a Pioneer," in Souvenir Booklet Commemorating Bannack, First Territorial Capital of Montana, Dedication and Pageant, 15 August 1954 , Montana Historical Society Archives.
67. Joe B. Frantz, "The Frontier Tradition: An Invitation to Violence," in Graham and Gurr, 141.
68. Woody.
69. John Largent, "Memoirs," Judith Basin County Press , 4 January 1937.
70. Idaho World (Idaho City), 3 June 1865.