Old Yukon tales, trails, and trials /

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Autor Principal: Wickersham, James, 1857-1939
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Outros autores: Cole, Terrence, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, c2009.
Series:Classic reprint series (Fairbanks, Alaska) ; no. 10.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The genesis of an Alaska court
  • Dawson and the Klondike mines
  • Planting American courts in the wilderness
  • Common law of the trail
  • Riding the Arctic circuit
  • The Yukon River winter trail
  • Triple murder in the Aleutians
  • The Anvil Creek conspiracy
  • The corruption of the court
  • Liars and thieves
  • Social life at Nome, 1901-1902
  • The dog trail from Circle to Fairbanks
  • Fairbanks and the Tanana mines
  • The Mount McKinley expedition
  • Up the Kantishna
  • The approach
  • On the slopes of Denali
  • Rafting home
  • Three thousand miles of justice
  • The Valdez-Fairbanks trail in 1905
  • The judge goes on trial.