Road Agent Trail

The panel takes Nathaniel Langford's word for the gang, and so did Montana for a century. Langford and Thomas Dimsdale wrote the accounts Henry Plummer's legend rests on, both after he was hanged without a trial. On May 7, 1993, the public schools of Twin Bridges, the town around this panel, staged a posthumous trial in Virginia City, with a sitting judge, Barbara Brook, presiding and twelve registered voters as the jury. They split six to six. A living defendant would have walked free, and historians afterward asked the governor for a pardon.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Beaverhead Rock — 13 mi
  The hill Sacagawea recognized in August 1805, the first sure sign that her people were close.
• Virginia City — 26 mi
  A gold camp one couple began buying in 1944, and the state bought from their family in 1997.

More markers nearby

• The Jefferson Valley — 3.6 mi
• Robber's Roost — 14 mi
• Beaverhead Rock — 14 mi
• Garnets, Vigilantes and Gold Dredges — 20 mi