The outspoken union organizer Frank Little was lynched in Butte, Montana in 1917 during rising tensions between mining companies and the workers. A note was pinned to his body with the numbers 3-7-77, which was a frequently used and enigmatic code for vigilantes. The idea of frontier, vigilante justice is so ingrained in Montana that their highway patrol patch has “3-7-77” embroidered on it—aligning the law enforcement agency with a history of lawlessness, assassinations, secrecy, and terrorism.