عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
HV6468.M9 A55 2004
HV6468
.
M9
A55
2004
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0806136375
(Number (ISBN
0806140380
(Number (ISBN
9780806136370
(Number (ISBN
9780806140384
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b755262
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
A decent, orderly lynching :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
the Montana vigilantes /
First Statement of Responsibility
Frederick Allen.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Norman :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Oklahoma Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
©2004.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxiv, 421 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, maps ;
Dimensions
25 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-406) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Maine to California -- "A seducer" on trial -- Wooing Electa Bryan -- The new sheriff -- The Dillingham killing -- "Cut-throats and robbers" -- The reluctant Chief Justice -- A Rashomon night -- The Southmayd robbery -- The Ives trial -- "Men, do your duty" -- The vigilantes -- "Red" Yeager's list -- Five hanged side by side -- One hundred and two! -- Slade of the overland -- "The wounded man recovered" -- "No more midnight executions" -- Thomas Francis Meagher -- Pax Vigilanticus.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"But Allen has uncovered evidence that the vigilantes refused to disband after territorial courts were in place. Remaining active for six years, they lynched more than fifty men without trials. Reliance on mob rule in Montana became so ingrained that in 1883, a Helena newspaper editor advocated a return to "decent, orderly lynching" as a legitimate tool for social control. As Allen shows in this definitive account of Montana's "formative morality play," many of the vigilantes' targets were not guilty of any crimes at all."--Jacket.
Text of Note
"The deadliest campaign of vigilante justice in American history erupted in the gold camps of the Rocky Mountains during the Civil War, when a private army hanged twenty-one troublemakers, including a rogue sheriff. Hailed as great heroes at the time, the Montana vigilantes are still revered as founding fathers who brought order to a lawless land." "Combing through original sources, including eyewitness accounts never before published, journalist and historian Frederick Allen concludes that the vigilantes were justified in their early actions, as they fought violent crime in a remote corner hundreds of miles beyond the reach of government."
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Frontier and pioneer life-- Montana-- 19th century.
Lynching-- Montana-- History-- 19th century.
Vigilantes-- Montana-- History-- 19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Lynching.
Vigilantes.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Montana, History, 19th century.
Montana.
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DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
364
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1/34
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
HV6468
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M9
Book number
A55
2004
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Allen, Frederick,1948-
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20201204151943.0
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
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