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  2. Montana Vigilantes - Wikipedia

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    Bill Hunter escaped capture in Virginia City, but was later arrested at a cabin on the Gallatin River and was hanged from a cottonwood tree on February 3, 1864. After the January 14, 1864 hangings, the vigilante companies left Virginia City in search of the remaining road agents on Yeager's list.

  3. Henry Plummer - Wikipedia

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    Henry Plummer (c. 1832–1864) was a prospector, lawman, and outlaw in the American West in the 1850s and 1860s, who was known to have killed several men. He was elected sheriff of what was then Bannack, Idaho Territory, in 1863 and served until 1864, during which period he was accused of being the leader of a "road agent" gang of outlaws known as the "Innocents," who preyed on shipments from ...

  4. Death of Shedrick Thompson - Wikipedia

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    Shedrick Thompson was an African-American man from Fauquier County, Virginia, who was accused of crimes against his white employers in 1932. He was later found dead, hanging from a tree. Upon discovery, his body was mutilated and burned. While an official verdict declared it a suicide, others maintained that he was lynched. He was 39.

  5. List of hanging trees - Wikipedia

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    Creek Hanging Tree: A 200-year-old bur oak used for the hanging of cattle rustlers and Creek tribesmen. Located on Lawton Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma. [16] Oregon. Dallas Hanging Tree: Oak tree used in the 1887 lynching of Oscar Kelty, who murdered his wife, and as recently as 1900 for legal hangings as Polk County, Oregon's official gallows.

  6. List of lynching victims in the United States - Wikipedia

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    N/A (independent city) Virginia: August 8, 1899: Attempting to criminally assault an eight-year-old white girl [147] Hanged from a lamppost at Cameron and Lee Sts., site of several lynchings. [142] [205] Martin Severts: White: Lituya Bay: Unorganized: Alaska Territory: October 1899: Murder of a miner: Hanged from a tree following a mock trial ...

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  8. List of people executed in Nevada - Wikipedia

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    Virginia City 3 1868 October 30 Rufus B. Anderson Austin 4 1870 December 16 Ah Fung Unionville 5 1870 December 16 Ah Ung Unionville 6 1873 October 17 David M. Hall Belmont 7 1874 April 24 John Stewart Aurora 8 1874 December 29 John Murphy Carson City (at the foot of Lone Mountain) 9 1877 January 19 Peter Larkin Virginia City 10 1877 October 30

  9. Roy Bean - Wikipedia

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    Roy Bean was born circa 1825 in Mason County, Kentucky, and was the namesake and youngest of five children (four sons and a daughter) of Phantly Roy Bean Sr. (November 21, 1804 – June 13, 1844) and the former Anna Henderson Gore.