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?
On a hill outside of Virginia City, the corpses of the five hanged men were buried. Eventually, however, people began to forget where the burial places were. Sometime in the 1920's, when he was in his 80's, former Sheriff Adriel Davis of the Nevada Mining District and a Vigilante himself, led them to the site. He named the body in each grave.
In order to be sure that Mr. Davis was correct and they had the right graves, however, they dug up one of them, which the old sheriff claimed was the grave of Clubfoot George Lane. Lane had acted as the gang's lookout. He had a shoshine stand in Dance & Stuart, where people bought tickets on the stage coach, used his position to spy spied on travelers who would be traveling away from Alder Gulch with gold.
The men who dug up Lane's corpse cut off his club foot as proof they had the right graves, reburied Lane, and marked the graves. Then they caused the foot to be placed under glass in Virginia City's Thompson-Hickman museum.
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