The biggest damned hat : tales of territorial Alaska lawyers and judges
Record details
- ISBN: 9781602233188
- ISBN: 1602233187
- ISBN: 9781602233171
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Publisher: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, 2017.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- 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 and getting soaked -- 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 -- Afterword. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
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Subject: | n-us-ak Law Alaska History Lawyers Alaska Biography Law Alaska Anecdotes LAW Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice Law Lawyers Alaska History 1867-1959 Alaska |
Genre: | Electronic books. Anecdotes. Biography. History. |
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