Old Yukon : tales, trails, and trials / / by James Wickersham ; edited and abridged by Terrence Cole.

• Superior document: Classic reprint series ; no. 10
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Wickersham, James, 1857-1939.
• TeilnehmendeR: Cole, Terrence, 1953-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Classic reprint series (Fairbanks, Alaska) ; no. 10.
• Physical Description: xlix, 302 p. :; ill., maps.

Table of 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.