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Reviews of Montana Stranglers in Dakota Territory
On December 16, 2022, Patrick Stringer did a front-page feature article on this book. This same article was reprinted by the Echo Press of Alexandria, Mn. https://www.inforum.com/news/north-dakota/how-a-frontiersmans-tie-to-a-gang-of-horse-thieves-likely-cost-him-his-life?fbclid=IwAR2AEzzWMx6ZZodFC9EX-REW9N8LmHhh8yW97aOaNUyxv65-eAuQJ6akssU A second article was written by Sue Sitter for The Pierce County Tribune on December 24, 2022.
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Overview
In the early 1880s, desperate characters left over from the fur trade began robbing arriving settlers in the wilderness of Eastern Montana and Northwestern Dakota Territory. Gangs of horse thieves sprang out of camps from the Musselshell in Montana, along the Missouri into Dakota Territory, up into Mouse River–Dogden Butte country and ending at Turtle…
