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1. Walter N. Davis, 12
2. "Early Times West," Sunday Call , 26 November 1893
3. Ibid
4. Beehrer, 264
5. Noyes, Ajax, 118
6. "Early Times West," Sunday Call , 26 November 1893
7. Langford, Vigilante Days , 282-83; Callaway, 66; Grannis, Book II, p. 3
8. Langford, Vigilante Days , 389-90; Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 172-73
9. Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 172-73; Kohrs, Autobiography , 35; Langford, Vigilante
Days, 390-91
10. Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 57-62; Langford, Vigilante Days , 279-84
11. Abraham C. Anderson, Trails of Early Idaho: The Pioneer Life of George W.
Goodhart (Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1940), 281, 284.
12. Thompson, 6 (October 1913) 4: 188; Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Censuses of
U.S.: 1840, 1850, and 1860 Population Schedules.
13. Daily Oregonian, 30 March 1864; Peltier, 148.
14. Beehrer, 268-73.
15. Ibid., 273-74, 268.
16. Fallon County Times , 21 December 1936; Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 174.
17. Fallon County Times , 21 December 1936.
18. Ibid., Sixth Census of U.S.: 1840 Population Schedule of Buchanan County, Missouri ; Reinhart, 52, 185.
19. Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of Oregon (San Francisco: The History
Company, 1886), 1: 448.
20. John Minto, "Early Days of Oregon, 1878," Handwritten MS., Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley, 22 -- 23.
21. Cornelius Gilliam, Letter to Nathaniel Ford, 15 May 1844, in Bancroft,
History of Oregon , 1: 448n; Fred Lockley, "Reminiscences of Martha E. Gilliam
Collins," Oregon Historical Society Quarterly 17 (December 1916) 4: 360.
22. Bancroft, History of Oregon , 1: 449; John Minto, "Early Days," 21; Catherine
Sager Pringle, "Mrs. Pringle's Address," Whitman College Quarterly 1 (Spring 1897)
1: 2.
23. Pringle, "Address," 2; John Minto, "Early Days," 24.
24. John Minto, "Early Days," 24; Pringle, "Address," 3.
25. Pringle, "Address," 4.
26. E. E. Parrish, "Traveling Diary Across the Plains," Entry of 15 July 1844,
MS., Idaho Historical Society, Boise.
27. Ibid., Entries of 1, 4, 12, and 15 August 1844; Catherine Sager Pringle,
"Diary, 1847," in Lillian Schlissel, Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey (New
York: Schocken Books, 1982), 39 -- 41; Elizabeth Sager Helm, "Conversation," in
Fred Lockley, Conversations with Pioneer Women (Eugene, Oreg.: Rainy Day Press,
1981), 46.
28. Lockley, Conversations , 46; Bancroft, History of Oregon , 1: 451 -- 55; Pringle,
"Address," 4 -- 5.
29. Bancroft, History of Oregon , 1: 452-55; Pringle, "Address," 5.
30. John Minto, "Camp Fire Orations, 1878," Handwritten MS., Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley, 15; John Minto, "Early Days," 27;
Martha Ann Morrison Minto, "Female Pioneering in Oregon, 1844," Handwritten
MS., Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 8; Oregon Country
Apportionment Census of 1845.
31. John Minto, "Camp Fire Orations," 12-13; R. A. Booth, "Umpqua
Academy," Oregon Historical Society Quarterly 19 (March 1918) 1: 4; Alfred Powers
and Mary-Jane Finke, "Survey of First Half-Century of Oregon Hotels," Oregon
Historical Society Quarterly 43 (September 1942) 3: 234, 239.
32. Booth, 4-5; Weekly Oregonian , 14 May 1853; Pringle, "Diary," 41; Oregon
Statesman , 20 May 1856 and 1 January 1853.
33. Reinhart, 53, 185; Eighth Census of U.S.: 1860 Population Schedule of Walla
Walla County, Washington.
34. Eighth Census of U.S.: 1860 Population Schedule of Walla Walla County, Washington ; Mrs. John Kirkwood, "Diary, 1845," in Schlissel, 45; John Strachan, "Letter,"
Rockford Register (Rockford, Ill.), 2 and 9 February 1861. Nathaniel Langford's
claim that Bill Bunton killed an Indian brother-in-law is incorrect. Langford
has evidently confused Missourian Bill Bunton with a Kentuckian named James
Bunton, who was charged with killing an Indian named Quiemuth in 1856, but
dismissed for lack of evidence. See Pioneer and Democrat (Olympia, Wash.), 28 November 1856.
35. Pioneer and Democrat , 28 November 1856; Washington Si!atesman, 21 and 28
February 1863; Oregon Statesman, 9 March 1863; Nathaniel Langford, "Diary," Entry
of 15 April 1863, Nathaniel Langford Papers, SC. 215, Montana Historical Society Archives.
36. Washington Statesman , 30 May and 13 June 1863.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid., 20 and 27 June 1863.
39. Fallon County Times , 21 December 1936.
40. William H. Babcock, "Some Reminiscences," Avant Courier , 1 April 1893.
41. The account of the stage holdup is a composite taken from Stuart, 258 -- 61;
Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 62-68; Langford, Vigilante Days , 234 -- 40.
42. Ibid.
43. Ibid.
44. Ibid.
45. Sanders, History, 1: 191; Deseret News, 9 March 1864; Langford, Vigilante
Days, 242.
46. Deseret News, 9 December 1863; Daily Oregonian, 30 December 1863; Oregon
Statesman , 28 December 1863.
47. Oregon Statesman , 4 January 1864; Deseret News , 9 March 1864; Sacramento
Daily Union , 13 January and 15 February 1864.
48. Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 133.
49. Judith Basin County Press , 13 July 1936.
50. Peltier, 168. Peltier claimed that in a letter dated 9 July 1864, Lew Callaway had written that "most of the badmen were judged 'in absentia' and... the
punishment decided upon previously."
51. Fallon County Times , 21 December 1936.
52. Ibid.
53. Ibid.
54. Callaway, 67.
55. Ibid., 68.
56. Fallon County Times , 7 December 1936; Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 179; Langford,
Vigilante Days , 395.
57. Register and Descriptive List of Convicts Under Sentence of Imprisonment in the State
Prison, California State Archives , Sacramento; James H. Wilkins, "The Evolution
of a State Prison," San Francisco Bulletin , 1 July 1918; Alta California , 12 and 22 July
1858.
58. Register and Descriptive List of Convicts; Nevada Journal (Nevada City, Calif.),
23 November 1855. For further details of Cyrus Skinner's life see R. E. Mather,
"Cyrus and Nellie and the Vigilantes," True West 34 (May 1987) 5: 20-26.
59. William D. Mangam, The Clarks: An American Phenomenon (New York: Silver Bow Press, 1941), 17, 24; Register and Descriptive List of Convicts .
60. Sacramento Daily Union , 17 June 1863; Peltier, 112; Beehrer, 273.
61. Henry Edgar, "Journal," Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana (Helena: State Publishing Company, 1900), 3: 124.
62. Beehrer, 273; Eagle (Ekalaka, Mont.), 25 May 1933.
63. "Incidents of Beaverhead County," in Noyes, Dimsdale's Vigilantes , 239.
64. Register (Stevensville, Mont.), 16 September 1918.
65. Fallon County Times , 31 July 1919.
66. Ibid.; Sacramento Daily Union , 24 February 1864; Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 180.
67. Fallon County Times , 7 December 1936; Register, 16 September 1918;
Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 185.
68. Seventh Census of U.S.: 1850 Population Schedule of Yuba County, California ;
Miller, 257-58.
69. Oregon Statesman , 18 May 1858; Register , 16 September 1918.
70. Register , 16 September 1918; Sanders, Beidler , 32.
71. Langford, Vigilante Days , 295.
72. Callaway, 26; Sanders, "George Ives," 62; Fergus County Argus , 18 April
1918.
73. Daily Oregonian, 13 April 1864.
74. Register , 16 September 1918.
75. Miller, 257-58.
76. Fallon County Times , 7 December 1936; Callaway, 68; Dimsdale, Vigilantes ,
181-82.
77. Fallon County Times , 7 December 1936; Callaway, 68-69.
78. An Illustrated History of Central Oregon (Spokane: Western Historical Publishing Company, 1905), 367; Marriage Records of Washington County, Missouri.
79. Seventh Census of U.S.: 1850 Population Schedule of Washington County, Oregon
Territory .
80. James W. Nesmith, "Emigration of 1843," Oregon Historical Society Quarterly
7 (December 1906) 4: 345, 350-51.
81. An Illustrated History of Central Oregon , 367; Leslie M. Scott, "Oregon Tax
Roll, 1844," Oregon Historical Society Quarterly 31 (March 1930) 1: 21.
82. Seventh U.S. Census: 1850 Population Schedule of Washington County, Oregon Territory ; J. Orin Oliphant, "Minutes West Union Baptist Church," Oregon Historical
Society Quarterly 36 (September 1935) 3: 258 -- 61.
83. Daily Oregonian, 21 May 1859; Thompson, 6 (October 1913) 4: 162.
84. Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 83; Langford, Vigilante Days , 24-7.
85. Thompson, 6 (October 1913) 4: 190.
86. Reinhart, 240.
87. "How Colonel Broadwater Outrode George Ives, Saved His Own Life and
a Fortune," The Leader (Piniele, Mont.), 2 September 1918.
88. Babcock.
89. Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 180, 184; Oregon Statesman , 23 May 1864.
90. Oregon Statesman , 23 May 1864; State of California Census of 1852; Oregon
Spectator (Salem), 7 January 1852; Babcock.
91. Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 184, 186.
92. Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 184, 186; Langford, Vigilante Days , 399.
93. Callaway, 69; Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 183.
94. Seventh Census of U.S.: 1850 Population Schedule of Yuba County, California ;
Sanders, Beidler , 35.
95. Langford, Vigilante Days , 245.
96. Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 182.
97. Fallon County Times , 7 December 1936.
98. Babcock.
99. Daily Oregonian, 13 April 1864.
100. Idaho World , 16 September 1865.
101. Daily Oregonian, 13 April 1864.
102. Dimsdale, Vigilantes , 186, 195.
103. Wesley P. Emery, "The Execution of Bill Hunter," Contributions to the
Historical Society of Montana (Helena: Montana Historical and Miscellaneous Library,
1910) 7: 171-73.
104. Emery, 7: 171-73; Langford, Vigilante Days , 158.
105. Adriel Davis, "Reminiscences," Standard (Anaconda, Mont.), 12 November 1899.
106. "Nelson Story Sr.," Fergus County Argus , 18 April 1918.
107. Emery, 7: 169, 173.
108. Liberty County Times (Chester, Mont.), 16 January 1941.
109. Callaway, 70.
110. Emery, 7: 169-72.
111. Ibid.
112. Adriel Davis; Sanders, Beidler , 90.
113. Emery, 7: 172; Chronicle (Bozeman, Mont.), 10 July 1966; Dimsdale,
Vigilantes ,193, 266.