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[17] Stuart, 231.
[18] Barzilla W. Clark, Bonneville County in the Making (Idaho Falls: Author, 1941), 6-7.
[19] Wilbur F. Sanders, "Early History of Montana," MS., Montana Historical Society Archives, 217.
[20] Register and Descriptive List of Convicts Under Sentence of Imprisonment in the State Prison, California State Archives, Sacramento.
[21] Dimsdale, 151.
[22] Ibid., 31-32.
[23] Ibid., 27 -- 30; Nathaniel Pitt Langford, Vigilante Days and Ways (Boston: J. G. Cupplies, 1890), 1: 242-46.
[24] Dimsdale, 25.
[25] Langford, 1: 246.
[26] Dimsdale, 28.
[27] Stuart, 235n.
[28] Ibid., 237.
[29] Langford, 1: 247.
[30] Dimsdale, 12-14.
[31] Sarah Wadams Howard, "Reminiscences of a Pioneer," Souvenir Booklet Commemorating Bannack, First Territorial Capital of Montana, Dedication and Pageant, 15 August 1954, Montana Historical Society Archives, n. p.
[32] Clyde McLemore, ed., "Bannack and Gallatin City in 1862-1863: A Letter by Mrs. Emily R. Meredith," in Historical Reprints (Missoula: Montana State University, n. d.) 2, 9.
[33] Helen F. Sanders, ed., X. Beidler: Vigilante (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957), 10.
[34] Dimsdale, 36; Langford, 1: 254.
[35] Harry S. Drago, Road Agents and Train Robbers (New York: Dodd Mead, 1973), 97, 224.
[36] Langford, 1: 242.
[37] Dimsdale, 41.
[38] Dan Cushman, Montana: The Gold Frontier (Great Falls: Stay Away, Joe, Publishers, 1973), 70. Cushman is one of the authors who points out the general acclaim of Colonel Connor's attack on the Shoshoni at the Bear River.
[39] Cushman, 219. Cushman describes the stamp mill, and the Sacramento correspondent identifies it as Plummer's. (See note 47.) [40] Dimsdale, 39 -- 46; Langford, 1: 269-85.
[41] Howard, n. p.
[42] Hoffman Birney, Vigilantes (Philadelphia: Penn Publishing, 1929), 93.
[43] Langford, 1: 289.
[44] Ibid., 1: 242.
[45] Ibid.
[46] Birney, 91-101.
[47] Sacramento Daily Union, 17 June 1863.