2 volumes, 8vo. Illustrated. (Paperclip marks on a few leaves vol. I.) Original blue pictorial cloth stamped in red and gilt, beveled boards, top edges gilt, others uncut (hinges tightened, some light rubbing); cloth slipcase. Provenance: Ella T. Wright (presentation inscription, see below); Jay T. Snider (sold his sale, Christie's, 21 June 2005, Lot 332. 

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY LANGFORD: "Ella T. Wright, With Compliments of Author N. P. Langford of St. Paul. Apr. 12th 1890."

"One of the best works on the Montana vigilantes and the Plummer gang of road agents" (Adams Six Guns 606). Langford traveled from the Midwest to the Western territories as third in command of Fisk's Northern Overland Expedition of 1862, and was one of the early explorers and founders of Yellowstone National Park, serving as its first Superintendent. "Much and valuable frontier history is to be found in this work, in which the author presents with clear view the strange scenes and singular characters of that strongly colored period" (Cowan). Cowan pp. 134-5; Graff 2390; Howes L-78. THE JAY T. SNIDER COPY.