Old Yukon : tales, trails, and trials / / by James Wickersham ; edited and abridged by Terrence Cole
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| Autore: |
Wickersham James <1857-1939.>
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| Titolo: |
Old Yukon : tales, trails, and trials / / by James Wickersham ; edited and abridged by Terrence Cole
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| Pubblicazione: | Fairbanks, : University of Alaska Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (354 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 979.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Frontier and pioneer life - Alaska |
| Courts - Alaska | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Alaska History Anecdotes |
| Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska) History Anecdotes | |
| Alaska Trials, litigation, etc Anecdotes | |
| Altri autori: |
ColeTerrence <1953->
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 traveling by dogsled over hundreds of miles through snow-covered mountains; serving as judge for the trials of many famous outlaws in the midst of the gold strikes; and hunting, mining, and climbing in his local Alaska wilderness. Though he was instrumental in the early history of Alaska, and his legacy is e. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Old Yukon |
| ISBN: | 1-60223-113-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910807198403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Classic reprint series (Fairbanks, Alaska) ; ; no. 10.