Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-221) and index.
Contents
The Yukon -- In the Heat of the Rush: The Nantuck Brothers -- They Always Get Their Man: Fournier and Labelle -- Breaking the Faith: The Elfors Case -- The Foreign Madman: Alexander Gogoff -- "To Make These Tribes Understand": The Trial of Alikomiak and Tatamigana -- "A Drunken Impulse": The Paddy Duncan Case -- A Miscellany of Murder.
Summary
"Tales of gruesome murders - described in folktales such as those about Sergeant Preston and the Mad Trapper of Rat River and in poems such as Robert Service's The Shooting of Dan McGrew - are resonant aspects of the Yukon's popular lore. But do these stories truly reflect life - and death - in Canada's most renowned northern territory? In Strange Things Done historians Ken Coates and William Morrison reinvestigate legendary murders from Yukon history."--Jacket.
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