1. You can run, but you can’t hide… The vigilantes, law, and Montana.

2. Why do we have laws and courts?

3. Let’s do this ourselves ● Created courts with judges and record keepers. ● Also elected sheriffs to enforce laws.

4. Trails were “spectacles.” ● Carried out on Sundays. ● With little to do, everyone shows up.

5. Henry Plummer- Elected Sheriff of Bannack. Leader of a secret group who robbed stagecoaches and committed murder.

7. Vigilantes ● After a murder trial a group decided that the local government was corrupt. The vigilantes were formed. ●Were responsible for 24 - 50 hangings in Montana gold territories.

8. Helena hanging tree.

9. Homework: Two paragraphs. ●Vigilante committees were created to combat crime in Montana. Why are these comities both good and bad? ●Do you think communities should form their own vigilante committees today ?