 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1902 - 846 σελίδες
...could be said with little exaggeration that ' Never a law of God or man Runs north of fifty-five ' : a country where no man could make a legal will, own...in great part has Alaska been for thirty years." He notes also : — " To one conversant with the facts, one of the most amusing things in current literature... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1902 - 1086 σελίδες
...could be said with little exaggeration that ' Never a law of God or man Runs north of fifty-five ' : a country where no man could make a legal will, own...in great part has Alaska been for thirty years." He notes also : — " To one conversant with the facts, one of the most amusing things in current literature... | |
 | 1902 - 474 σελίδες
...could be said with little exaggeration that " Never a law of God nor man Runs north of fifty-five." A country where no man could make a legal will, own...such in great part has Alaska been for thirty years. The waning of the fur trade and the increase in population due to the discovery of gold have forced... | |
 | Nathan Haskell Dole - 1910 - 248 σελίδες
...temporarily accorded by a British man-of-war." Nor is it any wonder that Mr. Ball should call Alaska " a country where no man could make a legal will, own...prohibition; where polygamy and slavery, and the lynching of whites prevailed, and no legal authority to stay or punish criminals." Attempts were made to induce... | |
 | George Waldo Browne - 1910 - 294 σελίδες
...temporarily accorded by a British man-of-war." Nor is it any wonder that Mr. Ball should call Alaska " a country where no man could make a legal will, own...prohibition; where polygamy and slavery, and the lynching of whites prevailed, and .no legal authority to stay or punish criminals." Attempts were made to induce... | |
 | Don Pitcher - 2007 - 594 σελίδες
...districts, with courts at Sitka, Nome, and Eagle. William H. Dall wrote of Alaska at that time as a place where "no man could make a legal will, own a homestead...with no legal authority to stay or punish criminals." Kipling's line, "There's never law of God or man runs north of 53," also refers to the young territory... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1902 - 732 σελίδες
...could be said with little exaggeration that 1 Never a law of God or man Runs north of fifty-five ' : a country where no man could make a legal will, own...in great part has Alaska been for thirty years." He notes also : — " To one conversant with the facts, one of the most amusing things in current literature... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1902 - 1134 σελίδες
...could be said with little exaggeration that ' Never a law of God or man Runs north of fifty-five ' : a country where no man could make a legal will, own...in great part has Alaska been for thirty years." He notes also : — " To one conversant with the facts, one of the most amusing things in current literature... | |
 | 1912 - 608 σελίδες
...competent authority, in describing the conditions on this land from 1867 to 1897, states that it was "a country where no man could make a legal will, own...such in great part has Alaska been for thirty years. * * * It will be a perpetual testimony to the character of the early American settlers in Alaska, that... | |
 | 1976 - 580 σελίδες
...when written few Americans will be able to read it without indignation." During these days Alaska was "a country where no man could make a legal will, own...with no legal authority to stay or punish criminals." Not until the appearance of Jeannette Nichols' History of Alaska, in 1924, was a detailed history of... | |
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: a country where no man could make a legal will, own a homestead or transfer it, or so much as cut wood for his fire without defying a Congressional prohibition : where polygamy and slavery and the lynching of witches prevailed, with no legal authority... 