Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
Old Yukon : tales, trails, and trials
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
- Summary
-
A 1938 memoir of the Alaskan gold rush era by the only judge in interior Alaska in the early 1900s. Describes how he administered justice by dog team at frigid temperatures to murderers, thieves, a...
A 1938 memoir of the Alaskan gold rush era by the only judge in interior Alaska in the early 1900s. Describes how he administered justice by dog team at frigid temperatures to murderers, thieves, and con men.
Details
- Creator
- by Hon. James Wickersham
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
-
- Washington, D.C. : Washington Law Book Co., 1938
- Physical Details
-
- 1 online resource (xi, 514 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits
- Includes index.
- 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