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100 1 Wickersham, James,|d1857-1939.|0https://id.loc.gov/
authorities/names/n87891026
245 10 Old Yukon :|btales, trails, and trials /|cby James
Wickersham ; edited and abridged by Terrence Cole.
264 1 Fairbanks :|bUniversity of Alaska Press,|c[2009]
264 4 |c©2009
300 1 online resource (xlix, 302 pages) :|billustrations,
maps.
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490 1 Classic reprint series ;|vno. 10
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 |tIntroduction --|tGenesis of an Alaska court --|tDawson
and the Klondike mines --|tPlanting American courts in the
wilderness --|tCommon law of the trail --|tRiding the
Arctic circuit --|tYukon River winter trail --|tTriple
murder in the Aleutians --|tAnvil Creek conspiracy --
|tCorruption of the court --|tLiars and thieves --|tSocial
life at Nome, 1901-1902 --|tDog trail from Circle to
Fairbanks --|tFairbanks and the Tanana mines --|tMount
McKinley expedition --|tUp the Kantishna --|tApproach --
|tOn the slopes of Denali --|tRafting home --|tThree
thousand miles of justice --|tValdez-Fairbanks trail in
1905 --|tJudge goes on trial.
520 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.
588 0 Print version record.
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700 1 Cole, Terrence,|d1953-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
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776 08 |iPrint version:|aWickersham, James, 1857-1939.|tOld
Yukon.|dFairbanks : University of Alaska Press, ©2009
|w(DLC) 2008053232
830 0 Classic reprint series (Fairbanks, Alaska) ;|0https://
id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94025122|vno. 10.
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