2-329-661 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

John X Beidler, leader of the Montana Vigilantes, c1860s (1954). Beidler was the leader of the Montana Vigilantes, a secretive band formed to fight crime in Montana in the 1860s. He later became a stagecoach guard and a deputy US Marshal. A print from the Pictorial History of the Wild West, by James D Horan and Paul Sann, Spring Books, London, 1954.