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And sure enough, two or three years afterward1, we did hear him again. News came to the Pacific coast that the Vigilance Committee in Montana (whither Slade had removed from Rocky Ridge) had hanged him. I find an account of the affair in the thrilling little book I quoted a paragraph from in the last chapter—“The Vigilantes of Montana; being a Reliable Account of the Capture, Trial and Execution of Henry Plummer’s Notorious Road Agent Band: By Prof. Thos. J. Dimsdale, Virginia City, M.T.” Mr. Dimsdale’s chapter is well worth reading, as a specimen2 of how the people of the frontier deal with criminals when the courts of law prove inefficient3. Mr. Dimsdale makes two remarks about Slade, both of which are accurately4 descriptive, and one of which is exceedingly picturesque5: “Those who saw him in his natural state only, would pronounce him to be a kind husband, a most hospitable6 host and a courteous7 gentleman; on the contrary, those who met him when maddened with liquor and surrounded by a gang of armed roughs, would pronounce him a fiend incarnate8.” And this: “From Fort Kearney, west, he was feared a great deal more than the almighty9.” For compactness, simplicity10 and vigor11 of expression, I will “back” that sentence against anything in literature. Mr. Dimsdale’s
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hatred
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vengeance
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uncommon
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inquiries
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ranch
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graceful
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accomplished
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temperament
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fatigue
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