“Montana Self-Defense Forces; Or, popular justice in the Rocky Mountains. It is a faithful and dispassionate narrative of the pursuit, trial, apprehension, and execution of the Henry Plummer gang, together with descriptions of the lives and crimes of many of the thieves. The author Thomas Dimsdale studied the events that happened in the unruly wild west part of the country, where the law was carried out by the inhabitants themselves according to ancient cowboy traditions. This book reveals Montana's bloody history and deepens knowledge of the conviction and punishment of criminal acts in the lawless world of the 19th century."