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Old Yukon tales, trails, and trials /

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Autore principale: Wickersham, James, 1857-1939
Ente Autore: ebrary, Inc
Altri autori: Cole, Terrence, 1953-
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, c2009.
Serie:Classic reprint series (Fairbanks, Alaska) ; no. 10.
Soggetti:
Frontier and pioneer life > Alaska > Anecdotes.
Courts > Alaska > Anecdotes.
Alaska > History > Anecdotes.
Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska) > History > Anecdotes.
Alaska > Trials, litigation, etc. > Anecdotes.
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Sommario:
  • 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.

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