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1.Grannis, Book II, p. 2.
2.Eighth Census of U.S.: 1860 Population Schedules of Wilson County, Tennessee and Marion County, Oregon; "Mining Records of Beaverhead County, Montana," in Noyes, Dimsdale's Vigilantes, 209; Toponce, 93; Wadams.
3.Sanders, History, 1: 191
4.Paris S. Pfouts, Four Firsts for a Modest Hero: The Autobiography of Paris Smaze Pfouts (Portland, Oreg.: Dunham Printing, 1968), 85; Langford, Vigilante Days, 376; Dimsdale, Vigilantes, 69, 160
5.Arthur Pauley, Henry Plummer: Lawman and Outlaw (White Sulphur Springs, Mont.: The Meagher County News, 1980), 227; Dimsdale, Vigilantes, 160
6.George Lane's right foot, walking stick, and razor are on display at a Virginia City museum
7.California Census of 1852; Eighth Census of U.S.: 1860 Population Schedule of Calaveras County California
8.Oregon Statesman (Salem), 24 November 1862
9.Washington Statesman (Walla Walla), 20 and 27 June 1863
10.Langford, Vigilante Days, 384; Sacramento Daily Union, 15 February 1864
11.Langford, Vigilante Days, 377
12.Ibid., 376-80; Dimsdale, Vigilantes, 160, 164
13.Dimsdale, Vigilantes, 133
14.Ibid., 164; Court Records of St. Lawrence County, New York
15.The description of Jack Gallagher is a composite taken from Ronan, 13; Rocky Mountain News (Denver), 12 February 1864; Sanders, Beidler, 28
16.Eighth Census of U.S.: 1860 Population Schedule of Leavenworth County, Kansas
17.Ronan, 9-13
18.For an eyewitness account of the Stinson-Lyons trial see "Early Times West," Sunday Call (Newark, N.J.), 26 November 1893
19.Walter W. DeLacy, "A Trip Up the South Snake River in 1863," Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana (Helena: Rocky Mountain Publishing, 1876), 1: 113-21
20.Ibid., 122 -- 41; History of St. Lawrence County, New Fork (Philadelphia: L. H
Everts, 1878), 504
21.Harriet Sanders, "Diary," Entry of 14 September 1863, MC. 53, Montana Historical Society Archives
22.Plassmann, 120; Sanders, History, 1: 188-90
23.Sanders, History, 1: 190 -- 92; Avant Courier (Bozeman, Mont.), 1 April 1893
24.Langford, Vigilante Days, 453; Dimsdale, Vigilantes, 170
25.Rocky Mountain News, 12 February 1864; Langford, Vigilante Days, 380-81
26.Peltier, 82; "Early Times West," Sunday Call, 26 November 1893
27."Early Times West," Sunday Call, 26 November 1893; Langford, Vigilante Days, 213 -- 14
28.Langford, Vigilante Days, 217; Sanders, Beidler, 27; Rock> Mountain News, 19 February 1864; California Census of 1852; Eighth Census of U.S.: 1860 Population Schedule of Richardson County, Nebraska. Asa Hayes Lyons was born in New Jersey, but reared in Pennsylvania. His widowed mother later moved the family to Nebraska Territory, 29.Sanders, Beidler, 27; Dimsdale, Vigilantes, 78; "Early Times West," Sunday Call, 26 November 1893
30."Early Times West," Sunday Call, 26 November 1893
31.Langford, Vigilante Days, 381
32.Ibid., 377-79
33.Pauley, 225
34.Dimsdale, Vigilantes, 162
35.First, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Censuses of U.S.: 1790, 1810, 1820, and 1830 Population Schedules of Lincoln County, Kentucky; Land Records of Monroe County, Missouri
36.History of Monroe and Shelby Counties, Missouri (St. Louis: National Historical Company, 1884), 100, 101, 107
37.Ibid., 107, 108; Seventh Census of U.S.: 1850 Population Schedule of Monroe County, Missouri
38.History of Monroe, 136-37; Oregon Statesman, 9 November 1863
39.Court Records of Monroe County, Missouri
40.History of Monroe, 222 -- 23
41.Ibid., 223-24; Court Records of Monroe County, Missouri
42.Oregon Statesman, 16 January 1865; Marriage Records of Monroe County, Missouri; Langford, Vigilante Days, 74; Russell Blankenship, And There Were Men (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942), 194
43.History of Monroe, 224-25
44.Ibid
45.Ibid., 192, 281; Court and Marriage Records of Monroe County, Missouri; Seventh Census of U. S.: 1850 Population Schedule of Monroe County, Missouri
46.History of Monroe, 226; Court Records of Monroe County, Missouri
47.Seventh Census of U.S.: 1850 Population Schedule of Monroe County, Missouri; Colonist (Victoria, Canada), 17 October 1862; Inquirer (Jefferson City, Mo.), 20 September 1851
48.Sixth Census of U.S.: 1840 Population Schedule of Culpeper County, Virginia; Seventh Census of U.S.: 1850 Population Schedule of Monroe County, Missouri; History of Monroe, 362-63, 602
49.History of Monroe, 102, 104, 108
50.Seventh Census of U.S.: 1850 Population Schedules of Monroe County, Missouri and Sacramento County, California
51.Court Records of Monroe County, Missouri; Blankenship, 194-97. Blankenship quotes from oral testimony no longer part of Monroe County records
52.Ibid
53.Court Records of Monroe County, Missouri
54.Court Records of Scotland County, Missouri
55.Ibid.; History of Monroe, 102; Court Records of Monroe County, Missouri; Ninth Census of U.S.: 1870 Population Schedule of Monroe County, Missouri
56.Daily Oregonian (Portland), 22 January 1863; Hubert Howe Bancroft, Popular Tribunals (San Francisco: The History Company, 1887), 1: 685; Langford, Vigilante Days, 81, 379
57.Eighth Census of U.S.: 1860 Population Schedules of Sacramento County, Califor nia and Walla Walla County, Washington; Bancroft, Popular Tribunals, 1: 685; Weekly Oregonian, 10 September 1859; Langford, Vigilante Days, 78-79
58.Langford, Vigilante Days, 80
59.Ibid., 78, 80
60.Herman Francis Reinhart, The Golden Frontier (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1962), 207; Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Chicago: John M. Gresham Company, 1896), 395
61.Daily Oregonian, 23 January 1863; Bancroft, Popular Tribunals, 1: 685
62.Bancroft, Popular Tribunals, 1: 685; Colonist, 14 and 17 October 1862 and 1 May 1863
63.Daily Oregonian, 22 January 1863
64.Oregon Statesman, 11 May 1863; Colonist, 4 April 1864; Langford, Vigilante Days, 83. Langford claimed that his quote was taken from a British Columbia newspaper, but he did not give its name, and the vague date he listed could not have been correct
65.Washington Statesman, 16 May 1863; Oregon Statesman, 16 January 1865; Reinhart, 208
66.Langford, Vigilante Days, 241
67. First and Third Censuses of U.S.: 1790 and 1810 Population Schedules of Lincoln County Kentucky
68.Ronan, 23; Grannis, Book II, p. 2; Langford, Vigilante Days, 382 -- 83; Dimsdale, Vigilantes, 165 -- 67
69.Dimsdale, Vigilantes, 165 -- 67
70.William Y. Pemberton, "Notes of Lecture Before Unity Club, May 12, 1908," William Y. Pemberton Papers, Handwritten MS., SC. 629, Montana Historical Society Archives, 15; Langford, Vigilante Days, 384
71.Langford, Vigilante Days, 384-85; Dimsdale, Vigilantes, 167
72.Dimsdale, Vigilantes, 167
73.Langford, Vigilante Days, 385-86
74.Pemberton, "Notes of Lecture," 14. Dimsdale and Langford wrote that it was Gallagher who requested whiskey, but Pemberton, who was a witness, agreed with the anonymous Banditti author that it was Helm
75.Langford, Vigilante Days, 386
76.Pemberton, "Notes of Lecture," 14
77."Letter from Our Special Correspondent," Sacramento Daily Union, 15 February 1864
78.Ibid.; Kohrs, Autobiography, 34; Pemberton, "Notes of Lecture," 14
79.Langford, Vigilante Days, 387; George A. Bruffey, Eighty-One Years in the West (Butte: Butte Miner Printers, 1925), 39
80.Dimsdale, Vigilantes, 169; Bruffey, 39
81.Ronan, 19, 23
82.Ibid.; Beehrer, 264; Peltier, 111
83.Dimsdale, Vigilantes, 159
84.Langford, Vigilante Days, 388; Sanders, Beidler, 24-25
85.Leavenworth and Lawrence Jail Records, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka; Penitentiary Records, Colorado State Archives and Public Records, Denver; Union Vedette, 5 February 1864; Rocky Mountain News, March-June 1863, Crime Scrapbooks, Colorado Historical Society, Denver
86.Ronan, 9n; Toponce, 56; Union Vedette, 5 February 1864
87.Fergus County Argus, 3 January 1938; Rocky Mountain News, 18 February 1864