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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wickersham, James, 1857-1939
Otros Autores: Cole, Terrence, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.