Old Yukon : Tales, Trails, and Trials /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wickersham, James, 1857-1939
Other Authors: Cole, Terrence, 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Trials.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Courts.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
Tribunaux > Alaska > Anecdotes.
Courts > Alaska > Anecdotes.
Frontier and pioneer life > Alaska > Anecdotes.
North America > Yukon River Valley.
Alaska.
Alaska > Proces, instances, etc. > Anecdotes.
Yukon, Vallee du (Yukon et Alaska) > Histoire > Anecdotes.
Alaska > Histoire > Anecdotes.
Alaska > Trials, litigation, etc. > Anecdotes.
Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska) > History > Anecdotes.
Alaska > History > Anecdotes.
History.
Anecdotes.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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