Old Yukon tales, trails, and trials - Wickersham, James (University of Alaska Press, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references and index
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