Old Yukon [electronic resource] : tales, trails, and trials / by James Wickersham ; edited and abridged by Terrence Cole.

By: Wickersham, James, 1857-1939Contributor(s): Cole, Terrence, 1953- | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Classic reprint series (Fairbanks, Alaska) ; no. 10.Publication details: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, c2009Description: xlix, 302 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Frontier and pioneer life -- Alaska -- Anecdotes | Courts -- Alaska -- Anecdotes | Alaska -- History -- Anecdotes | Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska) -- History -- Anecdotes | Alaska -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- AnecdotesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 979.8 LOC classification: F904 | .W66 2009Online resources: Click to View
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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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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