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Old Yukon : Tales, Trails, and Trials /
In this humorous and upbeat memoir, James Wickersham describes his career as a pioneer judge and later as a congressional representative assigned to a vast, snow-covered district, extending over 300,000 square miles in the undeveloped Alaska Territory. Wickersham's many adventures include trave...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Fairbanks :
University of Alaska Press,
2009.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Wickersham, James, |d 1857-1939. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Old Yukon : |b Tales, Trails, and Trials / |c by James Wickersham ; edited and abridged by Terrence Cole. |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Introduction -- |t The genesis of an Alaska court -- |t Dawson and the Klondike mines -- |t Planting American courts in the wilderness -- |t Common law of the trail -- |t Riding the Arctic circuit -- |t The Yukon River winter trail -- |t Triple murder in the Aleutians -- |t The Anvil Creek conspiracy -- |t The corruption of the court -- |t Liars and thieves -- |t Social life at Nome, 1901-1902 -- |t The dog trail from Circle to Fairbanks -- |t Fairbanks and the Tanana mines -- |t The Mount McKinley expedition -- |t Up the Kantishna -- |t The approach -- |t On the slopes of Denali -- |t Rafting home -- |t Three thousand miles of justice -- |t The Valdez-Fairbanks trail in 1905 -- |t The judge goes on trial. |
| 520 | |a In this humorous and upbeat memoir, James Wickersham describes his career as a pioneer judge and later as a congressional representative assigned to a vast, snow-covered district, extending over 300,000 square miles in the undeveloped Alaska Territory. Wickersham's many adventures include traveling by dogsled over hundreds of miles through snow-covered mountains; serving as judge for the trials of many famous outlaws in the midst of the gold strikes; and hunting, mining, and climbing in his local Alaska wilderness. Though he was instrumental in the early history of Alaska, and his legacy is e. | ||
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