Photos from: Troublemakers earned a one-way ticket south




Alaska State Library, ASL-P425-6-01, Historical Collection

As the Territory of Alaska grew up, the people in the Great Land distanced themselves from frontier justice – as in the photo here taken in the Koyukuk region – and turned to sending criminals back to the Lower 48 with one-way tickets south.



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