Crooked Past
The History of a Frontier Mining Camp
Distributed for University of Alaska Press
163 pages
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5-1/2 x 8-1/2
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© 1991
The crookedest street in Fairbanks, an Alaskan sourdough once said, is rightly named for town founder E. T. Barnette. Crooked Past, Terrence Cole's lively history of Fairbanks examines one of Alaska's most notorious con men. Barnette, a footloose fortune hunter who had served time in an Oregon penitentiary, came north during the Klondike gold rush of 1897-1898. He struck it rich after founding the city of Fairbanks in the early 1900s. Yet less than ten years later he was run out of the territory and allegedly disappeared in Mexico, becoming the most hated man in the town he founded and fled.
Contents
Introduction
1 The Curse of the Cleveland
2 The Lost Creek
3 The Captain and the Judge
4 The Strike
5 The Stampede
6 The Mayor of Fairbanks
7 The American Klondike
8 Ex-Convict
9 A White Horse and a Dark Night
Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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