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Both dates are prior to Fisk's publication, however no historians have found anything of special significance to crime or vigilance on either day.

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If there ever was, it was not noteworthy enough to be published in a newspaper. In , historian Rex Myers wrote a compelling article for Montana: The Magazine of Western History proposing that the code has Masonic roots.

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Myers suggests that the 3 referred to the three immigrants from Minnesota who founded Montana's first lodge in ; the 7 referenced seven prominent Virginia City Masons who formed a vigilance committee and signed an oath in ; and the 77 represented a Mason named Bell who died of fever in plus the 76 others said to have attended his funeral. Myers' narrative is worthy of serious consideration. For one thing, the timing works very well. The seven signed their oath on December 23, , only a few days before those first weeks of in which the Montana Vigilance Committee rode forth and hanged so many.

Three founding Masons, seven strongarm Masons, and seventy seven worshiping brethren. Other parts of the timeline don't work so well, though. From all historical records, no researcher has been able to find any reference to the code until Fisk's article. That's more than fourteen years after the seven committee members signed the oath in Virginia City; would any have even remembered them by then? Some had doubtless passed away in the ensuing decade and a half, others had taken their places; and the count of seventy seven men at Bell's funeral seems no more solid than any other anecdote.

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The account of Bell's funeral is only known from the book Vigilante Days and Ways, published in by Nathaniel Langford, who presided at Bell's funeral. Langford made no mention of the number of mourners; it appears to be a modern invention. Or if not an invention, then a post-hoc rationalization to explain the number Myers' proposal has two things that no other hypothesis has, however: Despite its imperfection as an explanation for , the Masonic connection has historical precedent, a reasonable explanation, and a reasonable likelihood of surviving those fourteen years in enough secrecy to keep it out of the few records that survive today.

And the symbol certainly survives today. A rock-jawed, old-school lawman, Stephenson was entirely ignorant of the numbers' convoluted history and believed they simply honored the vigilantes of It is no dinosaur. You can find the code in the gift shops, on the post cards, on the Masonic lodges and on official state materials. And it is most assuredly found alongside the siren that rolls up behind you should you cross the Montana law.

Be good, keep your manners, and mind your Ps and Qs if you're going to Montana; it's advice that's no less wise today than it was in Please contact us with any corrections or feedback. The Montana Vigilance Code.

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Did it represent 3 hours, 7 minutes, and 77 seconds? The day before, a storekeeper was robbed at gunpoint, and Fisk's final publication before the public painting of spoke of the town's ruffians as follows: The day approaches when an hour's notice will send the crowd tramping from town.

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