The Montana Vigilantes 1863-1870: Gold, Guns and Gallows

by Mark C. Dillon

Historians and novelists alike have described the vigilantism that took root in the gold-mining communities of Montana in the mid-1860s, but Mark C. Dillon is the first to examine the subject through the prism of American legal history, considering the state of criminal justice and law enforcement in the western territories and also trial procedures, gubernatorial politics, legislative enactments, and constitutional rights.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874219191
• ISBN13: 9780874219197
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.6" x 9.5"