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What is 3-7-77, Associated with the Montana Vigilantes?

by | Dec 12, 2017 | Ask the Marshall, Departments

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What is 3-7-77, associated with the Montana Vigilantes? Dave Quinn Carson City, Nevada This has long been a Western historical puzzle. The Montana Vigilantes never revealed the meaning of 3-7-77, which has led to speculation about its meaning. The most plausible explanation comes from a 1974 article in Montana: The Magazine of Western History, which suggested the numbers represented the three emigrants from Minnesota who formed the first Masonic lodge in 1862 in Virginia City; the seven Mas


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