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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Fairbanks :
University of Alaska Press,
2009.
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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.