John X Beidler, leader of the Montana Vigilantes Wheel possibly a view of the

possibly a view of the long vanished toll gate in Court Lane

The Menoptera (a good monster) looks like a butterfly

To whom this Plate is most humbly Inscribed by his most obedient Servant

held in Rome

000 Sevens had been made

John X Beidler, leader of the Montana Vigilantes Wheel possibly a view of theJohn 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.