The Life and Times of Henry Plummer

<p>Historians have devoted much time and effort investigating Henry Plummer the sheriff of Bannack Montana who was hanged by vigilantes on a bitter cold January night in 1864. Henry’s life tells the tale of a lawless West and the untamed violent mining towns of the 1800s where shootouts and duals rule and life is worth only a handful of gold. Henry a well-educated and handsome man soft-spoken and refined appears dedicated to the law but is capable of instantly shooting a man dead. When Henry Plummer becomes sheriff in Bannack in 1863 he has killed five men in self-defense. Hunger for gold dust brings every manner of men and with them come more robberies and murders. Rumors and suspicion become rampant leaving no one untouched including Henry Plummer a man swept along by the tides of his time.</p>