A Decent, Orderly Lynching: The Montana Vigilantes

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.

• | Author: Frederick Allen
• | Publisher: University Of Oklahoma Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 15, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 448 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 0806140380
• | ISBN-13: 9780806140384