Vigilantes Archives

Vigilantes

The Last Detail

by Kent Russell,

On patrol with the Guardian Angels

I Did It My Way

by Nick Pinkerton,

A recent cycle of vigilante films might gesture towards Trump-era fears, but their source is much older

Just Us League

From recent emails sent to Roman Daniels, also known as Red Voltage, a leader of the Black Monday Society, a crime-fighting group that has been patrolling Salt Lake City in…

A shtetl divided

by Matthew Shaer,

Messianic vigilantes, brawling Hasidim, and the battle for Jewish Brooklyn

The last hired gun. Ed Cantrell gets the job done

by James Conaway,

Citizen Goetz

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The liberation of Spring City

by Bernard Augustine De Voto,

A wise precaution

by Harper’s Staff,

The last lynching in Cimarron

by Cyrus Townsend Brady,

A miner’s politeness

by Harper’s Staff,

With the bluecoats on the border

by Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum,