The biggest damned hat : tales of territorial Alaska lawyers and judges / Pamela Cravez.
2017
KFA1278 .C729 2017 (Mapit)
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The biggest damned hat : tales of territorial Alaska lawyers and judges / Pamela Cravez.
Imprint
Fairbanks, AK : University of Alaska Press, [2017]
Description
216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Three lucky Swedes and one corrupt judge
Wickersham chafes under Eagle's slow pace
George Grigsby's biggest damned hat
Becoming Norman Banfield
W.C. Arnold : territorial Alaska's most powerful lobbyist
Mildred Hermann and Dorothy Haaland : independent thinking women
Hellenthal chooses Anchorage
Tales of the silver fox
Judge George Folta : license to hunt
Remembering Judge Folta and Ketchikan's red light district
Influence and discipline : policing territorial lawyers
Buell Nesbett : navigating territorial waters
Anchorage lawyers : creating a better system
Rocky seas : the great Alaska court-bar fight
Nesbett's surrogate
Grace Berg Schaible and the Tanana Valley bar
More frontier stories.
Wickersham chafes under Eagle's slow pace
George Grigsby's biggest damned hat
Becoming Norman Banfield
W.C. Arnold : territorial Alaska's most powerful lobbyist
Mildred Hermann and Dorothy Haaland : independent thinking women
Hellenthal chooses Anchorage
Tales of the silver fox
Judge George Folta : license to hunt
Remembering Judge Folta and Ketchikan's red light district
Influence and discipline : policing territorial lawyers
Buell Nesbett : navigating territorial waters
Anchorage lawyers : creating a better system
Rocky seas : the great Alaska court-bar fight
Nesbett's surrogate
Grace Berg Schaible and the Tanana Valley bar
More frontier stories.
Summary
"Alaska history from the days before statehood is rich in stories of colorful characters--prospectors, settlers, heroes, and criminals. And right alongside them were judges and lawyers, working first to establish the rule of law in the territory, then, later, laying the groundwork for statehood. [This book is a] collection of stories ranging from the gold rush to the 1950s. Built on interviews and oral histories from more than fifty lawyers who worked in Alaska before 1959, and buttressed by research into legal history, the book offers a...portrait of law in the territory--from laying the groundwork for strong civil and criminal law to helping to secure mining and fishing rights to the Alaska Court-Bar fight, which pitted Alaska's community of lawyers against its nascent Supreme Court. Bringing to life a time long past--when some of the best lawyers had little formal legal education--[this book] fills...a part of the story of Alaska's history."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Location
STA
Available in Other Form
Online version: Cravez, Pamela, author. Biggest damned hat Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, 2017
Call Number
KFA1278 .C729 2017
Language
English
ISBN
9781602233171 paperback alkaline paper
1602233179 paperback alkaline paper
1602233179 paperback alkaline paper
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