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Bronze Tablet to Honor Judge of First Montana Hanging Trial
The Sixteenth legislative assembly orders a bronze tablet in Helena to honor Don L. Byam the presiding judge at Montana's first jury trial that led to a hanging. The 1863 Nevada City Ives trial in Alder Gulch saw Colonel Sanders and Wilber Sanders prosecute, with Byam presiding in a wagon court under a log-camp setting.
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Legislature
Montana
Sixteenth
Legislative Assembly
Don
Helena
Don L. Byam
George Ives
Plummer
Byam
Nevada City
Alder Gulch
Virginia City
W. F. Sanders
Charles S. Baggs
Alex Davis
J. M. Thurman
H. P. A. Smith
Ives
Nicholas Thalt
W. H. Patten
W. Y. Pemberton
Montana Historical Library
Judge Byam
Friends of Law and Order
Don L. Byams
Wilber F. Sanders
Pemberton
Virginia
Pike’s Peak
Bannack
Emigrant Gulch
Emigrant Cemetery
Henry Clay Byam
Yellowstone Valley
Charles S. Muffley
Winston
Colonel Sanders
Capitol
Henry Spivey
Sanders
Robert Hereford
A. B. Davis
Davis
Alex Carter
Long John Franck
Charles Beehrer