The biggest damned hat
Subtitle: tales from territorial Alaska lawyers and judges
By: Pamela Cravez
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781602233171
Subjects: History; Law; Lawyers; Biography; Anecdotes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Three lucky Swedes and one corrupt judge; title: Wickersham chafes under Eagle's slow pace; title: George Grigsby's biggest damned hat; title: Becoming Norman Banfield; title: W.C. Arnold : territorial Alaska's most powerful lobbyist; title: Mildred Hermann and Dorothy Haaland : independent thinking women; title: Hellenthal chooses Anchorage; title: Tales of the silver fox; title: Judge George Folta : license to hunt; title: Remembering Judge Folta and Ketchikan's red light district; title: Influence and discipline : policing territorial lawyers; title: Buell Nesbett : navigating territorial waters and getting soaked; title: Anchorage lawyers : creating a better system; title: Rocky seas : the great Alaska court-bar fight; title: Nesbett's surrogate; title: Grace Berg Schaible and the Tanana Valley bar; title: More frontier stories; title: Afterword.