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The Biggest Damned Hat : Tales from Alaska's Territorial Lawyers and Judges /
"Alaska history from the days before statehood is rich in stories of colorful characters--prospectors, settlers, heroes, and criminals. And right alongside them were judges and lawyers, working first to establish the rule of law in the territory, then, later, laying the groundwork for statehood...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Fairbanks, AK :
University of Alaska Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Three lucky Swedes and one corrupt judge
- Wickersham chafes under Eagle's slow pace
- George Grigsby's biggest damned hat
- Becoming Norman Banfield
- W.C. Arnold : territorial Alaska's most powerful lobbyist
- Mildred Hermann and Dorothy Haaland : independent thinking women
- Hellenthal chooses Anchorage
- Tales of the silver fox
- Judge George Folta : license to hunt
- Remembering Judge Folta and Ketchikan's red light district
- Influence and discipline : policing territorial lawyers
- Buell Nesbett : navigating territorial waters
- Anchorage lawyers : creating a better system
- Rocky seas : the great Alaska court-bar fight
- Nesbett's surrogate
- Grace Berg Schaible and the Tanana Valley bar
- More frontier stories.