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Vigilante origins in 1863 Virginia City Montana
Lew L Callaway revisits the 1863 Vigilante movement in Alder Gulch noting contested claims about who swore in the first committee. He cites James Williams Wilbur F Sanders Paris Pfouts and John S Lott as key figures, contrasts Mason affiliations, and weighs sources and timelines surrounding the Ives arrest and vigilante oath taking.
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Montana Mason
Masonry
Montana
Lew L. Callaway
Masons
Montana Territory
Callaway
Montana Supreme Court
Treasure State
James Williams
Colonel Sanders
Virginia City
Broadway
Alder Gulch
George Ives
John S. Lott
Mortimer H. Lott
Adriel B. Davis
J. X. Beidler
Charles Beehrer
Montana Historical Society
Bannack
John Kinna
J. A. Nye
Paris S. Prouts
Wilbur F. Sanders
Sanders
Helen Fitzgerald Sanders
N. P. Langford
Thomas J. Dimsdale
Rocky Mountains
A. K. McClure
Col. Sanders
Blackface
Virginia
Williams
Langford
Nevada
League of Safety and Order
Salt Lake Road
Red
Yeager
Brown
Masons of
Grand Lodge of
Nebraska
Nevada City
Idaho
Kansas
Plummer
Ives
Charles S. Bagg
Paris F. Prouts
Nick Wall
St. Louis
Col
Maj
Alvin V. Brookie
John Nye
Prouts
Kinna and Nye
Pfouts
Dimsdale
John S
Lott
Junction
Fox
Blue House
Masonic Temple
Wallace Street
Paris Pfouts
Paris S. Piicuis
J. M. Fox
A. B. Davis
Davis
Wall Brookie Or Nye
California
Virginia Lodge No. 1
Neil Howie
Thomas Baume
Robert Hereford
John Featherston
Elkanah Morse
Masonic Lodge
John X. Beidler
Charles Brown
Richard McLaren
Beehrer
Semet