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Appendix A Official Vigilante Histories Author Narrative Title Status of Narrative Vigilance Committee Location Dates of Committee Levi Ashcraft “Thrilling Scenes in Texas” Never published Shelby County Moderators Shelby County, Texas 1840–1844 Eph Daggett “Recollections of the War of the Moderators and Regulators” Never published Shelby County Regulators Shelby County, Texas 1840–1844 John Middleton History of the Regulators and Moderators and the Shelby County War in 1841 and 1842 in the Republic of Texas Published in 1883 Shelby County Regulators Shelby County, Texas 1840–1844 Anonymous The Banditti of the Rocky Mountains and Vigilance Committee in Idaho Published in 1856 Alder Gulch vigilantes Bannack/Virginia City, Montana (Idaho Territory) 1863–1864 Thomas Dimsdale The Vigilantes of Montana or Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains: Being a Correct and Impartial Narrative of the Chase, Trial, Capture and Execution of Henry Plummer’s Notorious Road Agent Band Published in newspaper in 1865, as book in 1866 Alder Gulch vigilantes Bannack/Virginia City, Montana (Idaho Territory) 1863–1864 Nathaniel Langford Vigilante Days and Ways Published in 1890 Alder Gulch vigilantes Bannack/Virginia City, Montana (Idaho Territory) 1863–1864 Edward Bonney The Banditti of the Prairies or, The Murderer’s Doom!! A Tale of the Mississippi Valley Published in 1850 Bonney, acting alone LaSalle County, Illinois 1840s Alexander Barde Histoire des Comites de Vigilance aux Attakapas Published in 1861 (in French) Fourteen-plus assorted vigilance committees Southwestern Louisiana 1859 Charles Summerfield (Alfred Arrington) Illustrated Lives of the Desperadoes of the New World Published in 1849 Cane Hill Company Northwest Arkansas 1842 William McConnell Frontier Law: A Story of Vigilante Days Published in 1924 Payette and Idaho City vigilance committees Western Idaho 1864 Asa Shinn Mercer The Banditti of the Plains or the Cattlemen’s Invasion of Wyoming in 1892 (The Crowning Infamy of the Ages) Published in 1894 Stock growers association and local ranchers Powder River Region, North Central Wyoming 1892 Almarin Paul “The Sixty Day Rule in San Francisco of the Vigilance Committee of 1856, by an EyeWitness , Almarin Paul” Never published San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856 Northern California 1856 ...

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