Chapter I: Introduction: xi

I HENRY PLUMMER 19

II SOCIETY IN LEWISTON 26

III NORTHERN MINES 34

IV CHARLEY HARPER 40

V CHEROKEE BOB 45

VI FLORENCE 53

VII FIRST VIGILANCE COMMITTEE 60

VIII NEW GOLD DISCOVERIES 64

IX DESERTION OF MINING CAMPS 69

X BOONE HELM 74

XI DEATH OF CHARLEY HARPER 87

XII PINKHAM AND PATTERSON 91

XIII EARLY DISCOVERIES OF GOLD 111

XIV CAPTAIN FISK’S EXPEDITION 122

XV BANNACK IN 1862 130

XVI MOORE AND REEVES 137

XVII CRAWFORD AND PHLEGER 148

XVIII BROADWATER’S STRATAGEM 163

XIX ORGANIZATION OF THE ROUGHS 171

XX A MASONIC FUNERAL 181

XXI BATTLE OF BEAR RIVER 195

XXII ALDER GULCH 206

XXIII VIRGINIA CITY 221

XXIV COACH ROBBERIES 232

XXV LEROY SOUTHMAYD 244

XXVI JOURNEY TO SALT LAKE CITY 255

XXVII COL. SANDERS AND GALLAGHER 266

XXVIII ROBBERY OF MOODY’S TRAIN 279

XXIX GEORGE IVES 285

XXX TRIAL OF GEORGE IVES 298

XXXI RESULT OF IVES’S EXECUTION 305

XXXII LLOYD MAGRUDER 318

XXXIII HILL BEACHY 331

XXXIV HOWIE AND FETHERSTUN 349

XXXV EXECUTION OF PLUMMER 360

XXXVI DEATH OF PIZANTHIA 367

XXXVII EXECUTION OF DUTCH JOHN 371

XXXVIII VIRGINIA CITY EXECUTIONS 374

XXXIX PURSUIT OF ROAD AGENTS 389

XL EXECUTION OF HUNTER 400

XLI THE STRANGER’S STORY 407

XLII WHITE AND DORSETT 420

XLIII LANGFORD PEEL 429

XLIV JOSEPH A. SLADE 441

XLV A MODERN HAMAN 463

XLVI JAMES DANIELS 473

XLVII DAVID OPDYKE 476

XLVIII SAN ANDREAS IN 1849 485

XLIX AN INTERESTING ADVENTURE 492

L THE STAGE COACH 517

LI RETROSPECTION 537

INDEX 545

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NATHANIEL P. LANGFORD _Frontispiece_

A PACK TRAIN: CINCHING 66

JAMES STUART, WHO SET THE FIRST SLUICES IN MONTANA 112

GRANVILLE STUART, WHO SET THE FIRST SLUICES IN MONTANA 116

CAPTAIN JAMES L. FISK, COMMANDER OF NORTHERN OVERLAND
EXPEDITION 124

JUDGE J. F. HOYT, MINERS’ JUDGE AT TRIAL OF MOORE AND
REEVES 144

JUDGE WALTER B. DANCE, MINERS’ JUDGE AT BANNACK 174

GENERAL P. E. CONNOR, COMMANDER AT BATTLE OF BEAR RIVER. 198

SAMUEL T. HAUSER, EX-GOVERNOR OF MONTANA 256

COLONEL WILBUR F. SANDERS, PRINCIPAL PROSECUTOR OF
GEORGE IVES 300

HILL BEACHY, LLOYD MAGRUDER’S AVENGER 332

NEIL HOWIE, CAPTOR OF “DUTCH JOHN” 352

JOHN FETHERSTUN, OVERLAND EXPRESS MESSENGER 358

A VIGILANTE EXECUTION 396

JOHN X. BEIDLER, LEADING VIGILANTE AND EXPRESS MESSENGER 464