TWENTY-ONE QUESTIONS Notes

TWENTY-ONE QUESTIONS

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1.Dimsdale, Vigilantes, 266; Union Vedette, 4 February 1864; Langford, Vigilante Days, 185.
2.People v. Williams, Idaho Territory Supreme Court, August 1866.
3.Boise News, 2 January 1864.
4.Langford, Vigilante Days, 370.
5.Fred S. Cook, ed., Historic Legends of El Dorado County (Volcano, Calif.: California Traveler, 1974), 32.
6., CalifHistory of Placer Countyornia (Oakland: Thompson & West, 1882), 332-33.
7.Deseret News, 8 October 1862.
8.Langford, Vigilante Days, 22-26.
9.Daily Oregonian, 11 November 1862 and 1 January 1863.
10.For Charley Harper's story see R. E. Mather and F. E. Boswell, Gold Camp Desperadoes (San Jose, Calif.: History West Publishing, 1990). For evidence of Plummer's arrival and departure dates see Mather and Boswell, Hanging the Sheriff, 175 -- 79.
11.Peltier, 123.
12.Callaway, 20; Dimsdale, Vigilantes, 16, 133, 171; Langford, Vigilante Days, 233; Bruffey, 39; A. K. McClure, Three Thousand Miles Through The Rocky Mountains (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1869), 229.
13.McClure, 229.
14.Langford, Vigilante Days, xii.
15.Oregon Statesman, 23 May 1864; Thane, 74.
16.Sacramento Daily Union, 15 February 1864; Langford, Vigilante Days, 367.
17.Dimsdale, Vigilantes, 252-53.
18.Ibid., 132-33; Sanders, Beidler, 85; Langford, Vigilante Days, 315; Callaway, 60.
19.Dimsdale, Vigilantes, 133.
20.Langford, Vigilante Days, 90.
21.Idaho World, 3 September 1865; "Correspondence," Nathaniel Langford Papers, SC. 215, Montana Historical Society Archives.
22.Sanders, History, 1: 581; William Y. Pemberton, "Pioneer Courts," Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana (Helena: Montana Historical and Miscellaneous Library, 1917), 8: 99.
23.Dimsdale, Vigilantes, 5, 13, 38; "Early Court Records of Beaverhead County, Montana," in Noyes, Dimsdale's Vigilantes, 224; Pfouts, 99.
24.Dimsdale, Vigilantes, 15, 165; Langford, Vigilante Days, 257.
25.Pfouts, 99, 100.
26.Ibid., 96; Langford, Vigilante Days, 134-35, 374.
27.Langford, Vigilante Days, 224; Pfouts, 96; Stuart, 222; Kohrs, Autobiography, 35.
28.Langford, Vigilante Days, 436; McClure, 229.
29.Michael Leeson, History of Montana 1739-1885 (Chicago: Warner, Beers & Company, 1885), 265; Richard Maxwell Brown, "The American Vigilante Tradition," in Graham and Gurr, 168-69; Dimsdale, Vigilantes, 256, 268.
30.For a discussion of Dimsdale's influence on later writers see Clyde A.
Milner, "Shared Memory of Montana's Pioneers," Montana: The Magazine of Western History 37 (Winter 1987) 1: 8-9.
31.Michael P: Malone and Richard B. Roeder, Montana: A History of Two Centuries (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1976), 64.
32.Langford, Vigilante Days, 132, 148; Kohrs, Autobiography, 23; Kohrs, "Statement," 1-2.
33.Malone and Roeder, 57; Stuart, 224.
34.Stapleton, 2; "The Vigilante Oath," Unidentified Newspaper Article, in Vigilante Vertical File, Montana Historical Society Archives.
35.Emily Dickinson, "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant," Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1961), 248; Sanders, History, 1: 219; Ronan, 25; Dimsdale, Vigilantes, 224; Kohrs, Autobiography, 35.
36.Sanders, Beidler, xii, 82 -- 83; Dimsdale, Vigilantes, 94; William Herron, Unidentified Newspaper Article, in Sanders, Beidler, 37; Callaway, 60.
37.Merrill G. Burlingame, "Montana's Righteous Hangmen: A Reconsideration," Montana: The Magazine of Western History 28 (October 1978) 4: 39.
38.Dimsdale, "The Banditti," 2; Ronan, 23.
39.Ronan, 23; Tom Baker, "Thomas Josiah Dimsdale," in Noyes, Dimsdale's Vigilantes, 6.
40.Blake, 4: 39.
41.Callaway, 5; Langford, Vigilante Days, 90, 538.
42.Dimsdale, "The Banditti," 2.
43.Baker, 5-7.
44.Baker, 5-7; Montana Post (Virginia City), 5 May 1866.
45.Eighth and Ninth Census of U.S.: 1860 and 1870 Population Schedules of Washington County, Maine; Langford, Vigilante Days, 365-66.
46.Langford, Vigilante Days, 90.
47.Albert Schweitzer, "Reverence for Life," in Randall E. Decker, Patterns of Exposition (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974), 195.