Contents:

• The Genesis of an Alaskan Court
• Vigilante Days of ’98 at Dyea and Skagway
• Dawson and the Klondike Mines
• Planting American Courts in the Wilderness
• Riding the Arctic Circuit in Mid-Winter
• Indians and Fur Traders on the Yukon
• American Occupancy of the Yukon Basin
• American Prospectors Discover Klondike Gold
• The Discovery of Preacher Creek – Birch Creek
• The Yukon River Winter Trail
• The First Printing Press on the Yukon
• Old Circle City and New Fairbanks
• Over the Dog Trail from Circle to Fairbanks
• Fairbanks and the Tanana Mines
• The Mount McKinley Expedition Organized
• Down the Tanana and Up the Kantishna
• The Sage of Kantishna—Legends of Denali
• Along the Chitsia Hillsides
• On the Slopes of Denali-Mt. McKinley
• Rafting Down the Kantishna River
• First Term of Court on the Aleutian Islands
• The McKenzie-Noyes Conspiracy at Nome
• The Nome Contempt Cases
• Cleaning the Augean Stables at Nome
• Animal Migration from Asia to Alaska
• Social Life at Nome: 1901 – 1902
• The First Alaska “Floating’ Court
• The Judge Tried by a Miners’ Meeting
• New Yukon Trails in Alaska

The book contains many pages of historical illustrations of the people, events, places, etc., of the Yukon area. An excellent resource for the history of Alaska.