Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Birth and Death Dates for Territorial Lawyers viii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 Three Lucky Swedes and One Corrupt Judge 7
6. 2 Wickersham Chafes Under Eagle's Slow Pace 19
7. 3 George Grigsby's Biggest Damned Hat 23
8. 4 Becoming Norman Banfield 35
9. 5 W. C. Arnold: Territorial Alaska's Most Powerful Lobbyist 55
10. 6 Mildred Hermann and Dorothy Haaland Independent Thinking Women 61
11. 7 Hellenthal Chooses Anchorage 79
12. 8 Tales of the Silver Fox 97
13. 9 Judge George Folta License to Hunt 111
14. 10 Remembering Judge Folta And Ketchikan's Red Light District 117
15. 11 Influence and Discipline: Policing Territorial Lawyers 125
16. 12 Buell Nesbett: Navigating Territorial Waters 137
17. 13 Anchorage Lawyers: Creating a Better System 147
18. 14 Rocky Seas: The Great Alaska Court-Bar Fight 157
19. 15 Nesbett's Surrogate 169
20. 16 Grace Berg Schaible and the Tanana Valley Bar 177
21. 17 More Frontier Stories 187
22. Afterword 191
23. Notes 197
24. Index 211