The Montana Vigilantes

By Thomas J Dimsale

On May 26, 1863, William Fairweather and a group of young men discovered gold in Alder Gulch, in the Ruby River valley, the U.S. state of Montana. By late 1863 the remote gold fields and transportation links were rife with outlaws threatening and killing at will. Read here the gripping true account of popular justice in the Rocky Mountains.