Stout Cord And a Good Drop A Novel of the Founding of Montana

Larger-than-life characters and the drama of gold-rush days in Bannack, Montana Territory, come to life in this suspenseful, fact-based historical novel. While the Civil War raged in the East, a war of a different kind was being played out in the new settlements of the Wild West--a war for political power and for control over the vast wealth of the new territories. The noose and gallows were the weapons of that war, wielded in the name of law and order by future senators, governors, lawmen, and copper barons. Revealed through the eyes of five young men caught up in the Montana Vigilantes' hanging of the infamous sheriff Henry Plummer, A Stout Cord and a Good Drop offers fresh perspectives on one of the most intriguing periods in western history.Gaitis, James M. is the author of 'Stout Cord And a Good Drop A Novel of the Founding of Montana', published 2006 under ISBN 9780762743148 and ISBN 076274314X.