Vigilante Days and Ways

by Nathaniel Pitt Langford

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Genres: History

554 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1940

About the author

Nathaniel Pitt Langford (August 9, 1832 – October 18, 1911) was an explorer, businessman, bureaucrat, vigilante and historian from Saint Paul, Minnesota who played an important role in the early years of the Montana gold fields, territorial government and the creation of Yellowstone National Park.

Source: Wikipedia

Reviews

[John Hansen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting historical account of 1860's Montana justice as applied by Vigilance committees. Written in the prose and vernacular of the times by a man who lived through this era gives the book an incredible feel of authenticity. This is not to say, however, that the overly verbose flowery writing style won't test your patience! Nonetheless, I highly recommend for the history buff.

[Nick Sinclair · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting series of stories are included in this book, which, while a bit difficult to read due to sentence structure and out of date words, does seem somewhat applicable in today's increasingly violent society. A worth while read.

[Ed · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wonderful history of the Adler Gulch region of Montana. The author's prose is a bit hard to get through at times (which is why it took me so long to finish), but the wonderful stories that are told help to understand the time and the area.

[Randi Samuelson-Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you want to know about Montana vigilantes, this is one of the definitive books on the subject.

[horseradish · Rating 1 out of 5]

Verbosity unbridled!

If you like words, there is plenty of them in this book. Far too many to maintain any interest in what could be an interesting subject

The author should take up crotchety and forget writing.

[Darin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hard to read because of the archaic writing style of the author, but an interesting close account of one of Montana's more famous stories.

[Billy · Rating 5 out of 5]

LAST 90% A GOOD BOOK !



The first 10% of this book is reminiscent of High School
History and Geography classes, I nearly quit reading at that point, I went to the middle pages and found they were quite
interesting so my advice is to skip the first 10% portion and you will enjoy the 90% remainder.
Week in and week out I normally read 2 or 3 books, with
reading this capacity I can sincerely state I have not read any book with as many unfamiliar words as I found in this book, I
checked each word in the internal Kindle Webster's Dictionary, over half of them display the statement, " DEFINITION CANNOT BE FOUND ", I wonder why the author chose to use unusual words especially in a book on 1860 era Cowboys, it demonstrates the author has extensive knowledge of the English language but the story does not gain anything from their insertion and I believe it detracts rather then adds to the quality of the story.
Even though I have criticized a couple things overall it still
merits a 5 star rating.