The Devil in the Bottle (New)
God's Thunderbolt:
The Vigilantes of Montana
Montana Vigilantes (historical essays)
Vigilante Pictures -- Alder Gulch
Why Revisionist Historians are Wrong
Why is this Site Named for a Mountain Range?
When I took this picture, I had climbed up to the Bannack Cemetery and looked down at what's left of the town of Bannack. At the lower right is an old building with three windows. That's the General Merchandise store owned by George Chrisman, a Confederate and slave-owner.
People differ as to whether or not the Territory in its early days was more populated by Confederate or Union sympathizers. I've come to believe that the majority were Confederate or Copperhead (Confederate sympathizers from the North) or pro-Union Democrats. They were governed by Abraham Lincoln's political appointees, Union and abolitionist to a man.
From here it's easy to see the scars of mining past and not-so-past all over the Grasshopper Creek area. It also shows the general environmnt of Bannack, with the steep hills surrounding it. No one had to walk far to be heading uphill or down.
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