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Lawlessness - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Killings
        
        Between 16 and 31 fatalities in the 'boom years'
      - War with the Paiute
      - Vigilante action - the Committee
      - Rowdyism
      - Highway robbery
- - - - primitive code of honour - the idea that in the absence of forces of law and order it was an individual's responsibility to settle things for himself. Since most westerners carried a gun, this often would end in a shooting