The biggest damned hat :
Cravez, Pamela,
The biggest damned hat : tales of territorial Alaska lawyers and judges / Pamela Cravez. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781602233188 1602233187
836C1D04-24E7-456A-98A5-29DB88DFD111 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2016031898
1867-1959
Law--History.--Alaska
Lawyers--Alaska--Biography.
Law--Alaska--Anecdotes.
LAW--Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Law.
Lawyers.
Alaska--History--1867-1959.
Alaska.
Anecdotes.
Biographies.
History.
Electronic books.
KFA1278
349.798
The biggest damned hat : tales of territorial Alaska lawyers and judges / Pamela Cravez. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9781602233188 1602233187
836C1D04-24E7-456A-98A5-29DB88DFD111 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2016031898
1867-1959
Law--History.--Alaska
Lawyers--Alaska--Biography.
Law--Alaska--Anecdotes.
LAW--Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Law.
Lawyers.
Alaska--History--1867-1959.
Alaska.
Anecdotes.
Biographies.
History.
Electronic books.
KFA1278
349.798