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The Montana stranglers in Dakota Territory / Ron N. Berget.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: True crimePublisher: Charleston, SC : Published by The History Press, 2022Description: 174 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1467149713
  • 9781467149716
Subject(s):
Contents:
Francis Gardipee: Métis mail carrier turned horse thief -- Edmund Hackett: the crony capitalist -- Flopping Bill Cantrell: plainsman/thief killer -- Horse thieves dancing an air jig -- Horse thieves and vigilantes in Dakota Territory: Fall of '83 to the Summer of '84 -- The Montana Stranglers in Montana -- The Montana Stranglers in Dakota Territory, part 1: through the Badlands to the Missouri River -- The Montana Stranglers in Dakota Territory, part 2: Mouse River and back home -- Unhappy endings.
Summary: "In the early 1880s, desperate characters left over from the fur trade began robbing arriving settlers in the wilderness of Eastern Montana and Northwestern Dakota Territory. Gangs of horse thieves sprang out of camps from the Musselshell in Montana, along the Missouri into Dakota Territory, up into Mouse River-Dogden Butte country and ending at Turtle Mountain. Cattlemen and homesteaders formed vigilance committees, including Granville Stuart's Montana Stranglers, resulting in the violent deaths of fifty-four people from September 1883 to December 1884. They weren't all guilty, and there were probably more. Author Ron Berget shares this thoroughly researched true story of the Montana Stranglers' bloody pursuits throughout the northern plains."--Publisher's website.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Not for Loan Not for Loan Main Library North Dakota Collection 978.602 B496 Not for loan 33111011230337
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 978.602 B496 Available 33111011279847
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The saga of The Montana Stranglers in Dakota Territory embodies the violence and vigilantism of the Old West


In the early 1880s, desperate characters left over from the fur trade began robbing arriving settlers in the wilderness of Eastern Montana and Northwestern Dakota Territory. Gangs of horse thieves sprang out of camps from the Musselshell in Montana, along the Missouri into Dakota Territory, up into Mouse River-Dogden Butte country and ending at Turtle Mountain. Cattlemen and homesteaders formed vigilance committees, including Granville Stuart's Montana Stranglers, resulting in the violent death of fifty-four people from September 1883 to December 1884. They weren't all guilty and there were probably more. Author Ron Berget shares this thoroughly researched, true story of the Montana Stranglers' bloody pursuits throughout the northern plains.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-166) and index.

Francis Gardipee: Métis mail carrier turned horse thief -- Edmund Hackett: the crony capitalist -- Flopping Bill Cantrell: plainsman/thief killer -- Horse thieves dancing an air jig -- Horse thieves and vigilantes in Dakota Territory: Fall of '83 to the Summer of '84 -- The Montana Stranglers in Montana -- The Montana Stranglers in Dakota Territory, part 1: through the Badlands to the Missouri River -- The Montana Stranglers in Dakota Territory, part 2: Mouse River and back home -- Unhappy endings.

"In the early 1880s, desperate characters left over from the fur trade began robbing arriving settlers in the wilderness of Eastern Montana and Northwestern Dakota Territory. Gangs of horse thieves sprang out of camps from the Musselshell in Montana, along the Missouri into Dakota Territory, up into Mouse River-Dogden Butte country and ending at Turtle Mountain. Cattlemen and homesteaders formed vigilance committees, including Granville Stuart's Montana Stranglers, resulting in the violent deaths of fifty-four people from September 1883 to December 1884. They weren't all guilty, and there were probably more. Author Ron Berget shares this thoroughly researched true story of the Montana Stranglers' bloody pursuits throughout the northern plains."--Publisher's website.

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