Author: DIMSDALE, THOMAS JOSIAH
Title: The Vigilantes of Montana, or Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains
Description: Omaha, NE: The Legal Classics Library, 2012. Reprint. 1. Leather. Publisher's full red leather accented with embossed gilt covers, spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering or decoration in each compartment, a.e.g, marbled endpapers, satin ribbon marked sewn in. "Perhaps no book excells Dimsdale's in presenting the picture of the lawless conditions that characterized the mining camps of the Rocky Mountain country. The author was editor of the Virginia City Montana Post and a participant in the extraordinary campaign against lawlessness" (Adams). Includes biographical sketches of Henry Plummer, Boone Helm, George Ives, Aleck Carter, Bill Bunton, Cyrus Skinner, Bill Hunter, Stephen Marshland and James Daniels. [Graff 1086; Howes D345] "Textually the most important book ever printed in Montana." The original publication in 1866 was the first book published in Montana and was based on a series of articles Dimsdale had written for the Montana Post in 1865. Former owner's printed bookplate, else pristine, unmarked, tight, square and clean. FINE. The Legal Classics Library Series. B&W Photographs. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. 290 pp. Fine with no dust jacket .
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Title: The Vigilantes of Montana, or Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains
Description: Omaha, NE: The Legal Classics Library, 2012. Reprint. 1. Leather. Publisher's full red leather accented with embossed gilt covers, spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering or decoration in each compartment, a.e.g, marbled endpapers, satin ribbon marked sewn in. "Perhaps no book excells Dimsdale's in presenting the picture of the lawless conditions that characterized the mining camps of the Rocky Mountain country. The author was editor of the Virginia City Montana Post and a participant in the extraordinary campaign against lawlessness" (Adams). Includes biographical sketches of Henry Plummer, Boone Helm, George Ives, Aleck Carter, Bill Bunton, Cyrus Skinner, Bill Hunter, Stephen Marshland and James Daniels. [Graff 1086; Howes D345] "Textually the most important book ever printed in Montana." The original publication in 1866 was the first book published in Montana and was based on a series of articles Dimsdale had written for the Montana Post in 1865. Former owner's printed bookplate, else pristine, unmarked, tight, square and clean. FINE. The Legal Classics Library Series. B&W Photographs. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. 290 pp. Fine with no dust jacket .
Keywords: Leather Law American History Americana the West History Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books
Price: US$ 50.00 Seller: Round Table Books, LLC
- Book number: 18451
- Book number: 18451
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