Vigilante Days and Ways: The Pioneers of the Rockies; the Makers and Making of Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming, Volum 2J.G. Cupples Company, 1890 |
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Vigilante Days and Ways: The Pioneers of the Rockies, the Makers ..., Volum 2 Nathaniel Pitt Langford Visualització completa - 1890 |
Vigilante Days and Ways: The Pioneers of the Rockies, the Makers ..., Volum 2 Nathaniel Pitt Langford Visualització completa - 1893 |
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Pàgina 125 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Pàgina 456 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The first four acts already past, The fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Pàgina 234 - ... existed it could not have afforded adequate redress. This was proven by the feeling of security consequent upon the destruction of the band. When the robbers were dead the people felt safe, not for themselves alone but for their pursuits and their property. They could travel without fear. They had reasonable assurance of safety in the transmission of money to the States and in the arrival of property over the unguarded route from Salt Lake. The crack of pistols had ceased, and they could walk...
Pàgina 168 - It is useless for you to beg for your life; that affair is settled and cannot be altered. You are to be hanged. You cannot feel harder about it than I do; but I cannot help it if I would.
Pàgina 168 - ... a gaming table in a saloon. Plummer was found "at his cabin, in the act of washing his face ... he was marched to a point, where ... he joined Stinson and Ray, and thence the three were conducted under a formidable escort to the gallows." Plummer himself had erected the gallows the previous season. Terrible must have been its appearance as it loomed up in the bright starlight, the only object visible to the gaze of the guilty men, on that long waste of ghastly snow. A negro boy came up to the...
Pàgina 170 - Certainly," replied the Vigilante, "but say your prayers up there," at the same time pointing to the crossbeam of the gallows-frame. Regardless of whether they deserved to die, and the evidence indicates that they did, the three men had been executed without trial. They had been executed because the vigilantes of Virginia City had sent word to Bannack to seize them and execute them. To Montanans the presence of judicial procedures...