Title: Vigilante Days and Ways: The Pioneers of the Rockies, the Makers and Making of Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming Author: Langford, Nathaniel Pitt Place: New York Publisher: D.D. Merrill Date: 1893 Description: 2 volumes. xxvi, 426; xiii, [3], 485 pp. Illustrated with 15 wood-engraved plates; title-page vignettes; engraving on dedication-page. (8vo) 7½x5, original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. Second Edition. Presentation copy inscribed on front free endpaper of each volume, "Albert P. Warren, Compliments of Nathaniel P. Lanford, St. Paul Oct. 5 1906." The best single work on the disruptions to law and order in Montana in the 1860's, well-written and comprehensive, taking a larger, more historical view of the proceedings than Dimsdale's first-hand account. Adams calls it "One of the standard works on the Montana vigilantes and the Plummer gang of road agents." This second edition has the same collation as the 1890 first edition, save for advertisements at the back of Vol. II; it is, however, printed on cheaper paper, and the engravings are not as well produced. Adams Six-guns 1280; Graff 2390; Howes L78; Smith 5684. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to bindings, front hinges cracking; very good. Item number: 219957
Title: Vigilante Days and Ways: The Pioneers of the Rockies, the Makers and Making of Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming Author: Langford, Nathaniel Pitt Place: New York Publisher: D.D. Merrill Date: 1893 Description: 2 volumes. xxvi, 426; xiii, [3], 485 pp. Illustrated with 15 wood-engraved plates; title-page vignettes; engraving on dedication-page. (8vo) 7½x5, original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. Second Edition. Presentation copy inscribed on front free endpaper of each volume, "Albert P. Warren, Compliments of Nathaniel P. Lanford, St. Paul Oct. 5 1906." The best single work on the disruptions to law and order in Montana in the 1860's, well-written and comprehensive, taking a larger, more historical view of the proceedings than Dimsdale's first-hand account. Adams calls it "One of the standard works on the Montana vigilantes and the Plummer gang of road agents." This second edition has the same collation as the 1890 first edition, save for advertisements at the back of Vol. II; it is, however, printed on cheaper paper, and the engravings are not as well produced. Adams Six-guns 1280; Graff 2390; Howes L78; Smith 5684. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to bindings, front hinges cracking; very good. Item number: 219957
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