- Publisher : Notoir Books (December 27, 2020)
- Language: : English
- Paperback : 591 pages
- ISBN-13 : 979-8587298972
- Item Weight : 1.88 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 1.34 x 8.5 inches
This are two books, edited together: THE MAKERS AND MAKING OF MONTANA AND IDAHO and THE PIONEERS OF THE ROCKIES. So this is your lucky day: two books for the price of one!
The truth of the adage that “Crime carries with it its own punishment” has never received a more powerful vindication than at the tribunals erected by the people of the northwest mines for their protection.
The early Vigilantes were the best and most intelligent men in the mining regions. They saw and felt that, in the absence of all law, they must become a “law unto themselves,” or submit to the bloody code of the bandits and robbers by which they were surrounded, and which were increasing in numbers more rapidly than themselves.
What else could they do? How else were their own lives and property, and the lives and property of the great body of peaceable miners in the placers to be preserved? What other protection was there for a country entirely destitute of law?
Although not the first exhibition of Vigilante justice, and certainly not the last, the one here recorded was – and still is – one of the most thorough and severe.