Popular Justice
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Episode 422 hearkens back to the wild wild West, in the days following the great gold rush. Much of the story takes place in Bannack, Montana, which is now a state park and ghost town, and follows the career of one of the most notorious gangs of the day and the rise of the citizen's committee that puts an end to it.
Adapted from the books "The Story of the Outlaw" by Emerson Hough and "The Montana Vigilantes, Or Popular Justice In The Rocky Mountains" by Thomas J. Dimsdale, the first newspaperman in Montana.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:04.0 | January 18th, 1890. |
| 0:11.0 | The Republicans of the Montana legislature have unanimously and on the first ballot elected Colonel Wil Wilber Fisks Sanders of Helena to represent |
| 0:22.6 | the new state in the United States Senate. If Colonel Sanders gets his seat, he will be one of the most |
| 0:29.1 | interesting figures in public life in Washington. He can tell stories in the cloakroom that will |
| 0:34.9 | make the hair of his colleagues stand perpendicular. |
| 0:38.3 | The Western career of Colonel Sanders covers every successive phase of development |
| 0:43.3 | of a community now risen to statehood. |
| 0:46.3 | In a score of years, there has been crowded into his life all that goes between the extremes of civilization. |
| 0:58.4 | Colonel Sanders was born in New York 56 years ago. |
| 1:07.4 | He studied law in Ohio, fought in the Union Army, went west in 1863 to Montana, then part of Idaho. |
| 1:13.2 | He settled first at Bannock City and undertook to practice his profession in a mining camp thronged with desperadas from every part of the world and fearing the new law except the swift |
| 1:19.9 | code of Judge Lynch. The centers of turbulence and of population were at Bannock City and Virginia |
| 1:27.0 | City, and no livelier settlements |
| 1:29.6 | existed at that time on the face of the earth. California gamblers and cutthroats, Mexican desperadoes, |
| 1:38.0 | deserters from both the northern and southern armies, fugitives from the justice of a dozen different |
| 1:43.9 | countries, bullies and |
| 1:45.5 | ruffs graduated in the class of 49, prostitutes and thieves, and murderers picked by natural |
| 1:52.2 | selection from the forlorn hope of advancing civilization, poured into the new gold country |
| 1:58.2 | along with the honest miner and the peaceable immigrant. |
| 2:01.6 | There was absolutely no government, no law, no protection for life or property |
| 2:07.6 | other than that which a shotgun affords. |
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