The biggest damned hat : tales of territorial Alaska lawyers and judges /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cravez, Pamela (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, 2017.
Subjects:
1867-1959
Law > Alaska > History.
Lawyers > Alaska > Biography.
Law > Alaska > Anecdotes.
Droit > Alaska > Histoire.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Law.
Lawyers.
Alaska > History > 1867-1959.
Alaska > Histoire > 1867-1959.
Alaska.
Anecdotes.
Biographies.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 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 and getting soaked
  • 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
  • Afterword.

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