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Fighting for the forty-ninth star
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ISBN: 1883309077 9781883309077 9781883309060 1883309069 Year: 2010 Publisher: Fairbanks, Alaska University of Alaska Foundation

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When Alaskans in the 1950s demanded an end to ""second-class citizenship"" of territorial status, southern powerbrokers on Capitol Hill were the primary obstacles. They feared a forty-ninth state would tip the balance of power against segregation, and therefore keeping Alaska out of the Union was simply another means of keeping black children out of white schools. C.W. ""Bill"" Snedden, the publisher of America's farthest north daily newspaper, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, helped lead the battle of the Far North against the Deep South. Working behind the scenes with his protege, a young atto.


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Old Yukon
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ISBN: 1602231133 9781602231139 9781602230514 160223051X Year: 2009 Publisher: Fairbanks University of Alaska Press

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In this humorous and upbeat memoir, James Wickersham describes his career as a pioneer judge and later as a congressional representative assigned to a vast, snow-covered district, extending over 300,000 square miles in the undeveloped Alaska Territory. Wickersham's many adventures include traveling by dogsled over hundreds of miles through snow-covered mountains; serving as judge for the trials of many famous outlaws in the midst of the gold strikes; and hunting, mining, and climbing in his local Alaska wilderness. Though he was instrumental in the early history of Alaska, and his legacy is e.

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