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[118] Thompson, 6 (October 1913) 4: 180.
[119] Ibid., 180-83.
[120] Dimsdale, 145-50.
[121] Thompson, 6 (October 1913) 4: 183; Plassmann, "Unidentified Article." [122] Thompson, 6 (October 1913) 4: 183.
[123] Plassmann, 127; Thompson, 6 (October 1913) 4: 183.
[124] Plassmann, 127.
[125] Howard, n. p.
[126] Dorothy M. Johnson, The Bloody Bozeman: The Perilous Trail to Montana's Gold (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971), 98-99.
[127] "Unidentified Pencil Sketch," Henry Plummer Collection, SC.
651, Montana Historical Society Archives.
[128] Sanders, Beidler, 22.
[129] Langford, 2: 175-77.
[130] Thompson, 6 (October 1913) 4: 185.
[131] Plassmann, 126.
[132] Ibid.
[133] Dimsdale, 154.
[134] "Unidentified Newspaper Item," Henry Plummer File, Montana Historical Society Archives, n. p.
[135] "Unidentified Account," Henry Plummer Collection, SC. 651, Montana Historical Society Archives, n. p.
[136] Dimsdale, 155-56; Langford, 1: 179-83.
[137] Grannis, 2: 2.
[138] George A. Bruffey, Eighty-One Years in the West (Butte: Butte Miner Printers, 1925), 38.
[139] Dimsdale, 180.
[140] K. Ross Toole, Montana: An Uncommon Land (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959), 78.
[141] Dimsdale, 224-27.
[142] Amede Bessette, "The Last Bandit Hanged in Bannack by the Vigilantes," TS., Montana Historical Society Archives, 1-3.
[143] "Notes of W. Y. Pemberton's Lecture before Unity Club, May 12, 1908," William Y. Pemberton Papers, Handwritten MS., SC. 629, Montana Historical Society Archives, 13.
[144] Alexander Toponce, Reminiscences of Alexander Toponce (Salt Lake City: Katie Toponce, Century Printing, 1923), 78.
[145] James Miller, The Road to Virginia City: The Diary of James Knox Polk Miller (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960), 78.
[146] Walter N. Davis, "Hung for Contempt of Court," Handwritten MS., SC. 1826, Montana Historical Society Archives, 12.
[147] Wilbur F. Sanders, "Notes to H. H. Bancroft," Handwritten MS., H. H. Bancroft Collection, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 7.
[148] Lew L. Callaway, Montana's Righteous Hangmen (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982), 46-49.
[149] Thane, 61.
[150] Maurice Kildare, "Henry Plummer's Golden Loot," Frontier Times, April-May 1965, p. 8.
[151] J. W. Smurr, "Afterthoughts on the Vigilantes," Montana: Magazine of Western History 8 (1958) 2: 17.
[152] Sanders, Beidler, 32; Dimsdale, 168.
[153] Sanders, Beidler, 32.
[154] Smurr, 17.
[155] Dimsdale, 25.
[156] Toponce, 73-74.
[157] Dimsdale, 257.
[158] Ibid., 148.
[159] "E. J. Porter Article," Helena Independent, 24 March 1886, in Sanders, Beidler, 93.
[160] J. Holleman, Statement to H. H. Bancroft, September 1, 1887,