Arthur Pauley (1905-1984) was a historian and writer. He wroter the book ''Henry Plummer, Lawman and Outlaw'', published in 1980 by the Meagher County News,

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. He published the first biography of

Henry Plummer Henry Plummer (1832–1864) was a prospector, lawman, and outlaw in the American West in the 1850s and 1860s, who was known to have killed several men. He was elected sheriff of Bannack, Montana, in 1863 and served until 1864, during which ...

, an old west lawman and criminal. Pauley's interest in Plummer began when he was very young listening to the old-timers taking about the subject while living in

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. He conducted research for many years before his book was published, visiting several places of interest associated with Plummer such as

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and

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and central

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. Pauley was an amateur historian described by his editor, Verle L. Rademacher of the Meagher County News, as driving around with great reams of paper files stacked in heaps in the back seat of his car.

Personal life

Pauley was born on December 2, 1905, in

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. He married Oneta McClellan and had two children; one son Robert and one daughter Vivian. He was a resident of

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for majority of his life from 1935 until his death in 1984.Washington State Archives, http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/Record/View/06E3767A7EC7FFAA6E9155F1D013DFAF

Selected works

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