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Old Yukon : tales, trails, and trials / by James Wickersham ; edited and abridged by Terrence Cole.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- 1857-1939. Wickersham.
- Series:
- Classic reprint series (Fairbanks, Alaska) ; no. 10.
- Classic reprint series ; no. 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life--Alaska--Anecdotes.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Courts--Alaska--Anecdotes.
- Courts.
- Alaska--History--Anecdotes.
- Alaska.
- Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska)--History--Anecdotes.
- Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska).
- Alaska--Trials, litigation, etc--Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (354 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781602231139
- 1602231133
- OCLC:
- 893740892
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