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The Bannack Encounter of Colonel Sander with Jack Gallagher
The 1863 narrative recalls Col. Wilbur F. Sanders arriving at Bannack from Virginia City with Samuel Hauser and Henry Plummer allies. Gallagher, exhausted and armed, seeks drink and food at Rattlesnake ranch while tensions rise over planned silver lode staking and potential violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Vigilantes
Wilbur F. Sanders
Jack Gallagher
Banack City
Virginia City
Idaho
Bitter Root Mountains
Bannack
Samuel T. Hauser
Bivens’ Gulch
St. Louis
Henry Plummer
Samuel McLain
Colorado
Nevada
McLain
Sanders
Plummer
Colonel McLain
Parish, Bunton and Company
Rattlesnake Creek
Blacktail Deer Creek
Beaverhead River
Frank Parish
Parish
John Gallagher
George Ives
Territory
Montana
McLachin
Sidney Edgerton
Territory of
F. M. Thompson
Leonard A. Gridley
Salt Lake City
Mr. Hauser
George Crissman
Hauser
Mr. Crissman
Nathaniel P. Langford
Rattlesnake Ranch
Erastus Yeager
A. J. Oliver and Company
Gallagher
Yeager
Argenta
Bunton
Corral
Red
George Brown
Mr. Gridley
Henry S. Tilden
Ohio
Horse Prairie
Yankee Flat
Horse Prairie Creek
Mr. Edgerton
Brown
Gridley
Grasshopper Creek
Langford
Tilden
Ray
Stinson