They could travel without fear.

They had reasonable assurance of safety in the transmission of money to the States and in the arrival of property over the unguarded route from Salt Lake.

The crack of pistols had ceased, and they could walk the streets without constant exposure to danger.

There was an omnipresent spirit of protection, akin to that omnipresent spirit of law which pervaded older and more civilized communities....

Young men who had learned to believe that the roughs were destined to rule and who, under the influence of that faith, were fast drifting into crime shrunk appalled before the thorough work of the Vigilantes.