The Soapy Smith Tragedy
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The Soapy Smith Tragedy
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Author : Shea
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
The Soapy Smith Tragedy written by Shea and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Skagway (Alaska) categories.
The Soapy Smith Tragedy
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1907
The Soapy Smith Tragedy written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1907 with Crime and criminals categories.
That Fiend In Hell
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Author : Catherine Holder Spude
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2012-09-28
That Fiend In Hell written by Catherine Holder Spude and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
As the Klondike gold rush peaked in spring 1898, adventurers and gamblers rubbed shoulders with town-builders and gold-panners in Skagway, Alaska. The flow of riches lured confidence men, too—among them Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith (1860–98), who with an entourage of “bunco-men” conned and robbed the stampeders. Soapy, though, a common enough criminal, would go down in legend as the Robin Hood of Alaska, the “uncrowned king of Skagway,” remembered for his charm and generosity, even for calming a lynch mob. When the Fourth of July was celebrated in ’98, he supposedly led the parade. Then, a few days later, he was dead, killed in a shootout over a card game. With Smith’s death, Skagway rid itself of crime forever. Or at least, so the story goes. Journalists immediately cast him as a martyr whose death redeemed a violent town. In fact, he was just a petty criminal and card shark, as Catherine Holder Spude proves definitively in “That Fiend in Hell”: Soapy Smith in Legend, a tour de force of historical debunking that documents Smith’s elevation to western hero. In sorting out the facts about this man and his death from fiction, Spude concludes that the actual Soapy was not the legendary “boss of Skagway,” nor was he killed by Frank Reid, as early historians supposed. She shows that even eyewitnesses who knew the truth later changed their stories to fit the myth. But why? Tracking down some hundred retellings of the Soapy Smith story, Spude traces the efforts of Skagway’s boosters to reinforce a morality tale at the expense of a complex story of town-building and government formation. The idea that Smith’s death had made a lawless town safe served Skagway’s economic interests. Spude’s engaging deconstruction of Soapy’s story models deep research and skepticism crucial to understanding the history of the American frontier.
Smith
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Author : John Davidson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
Smith written by John Davidson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with English drama categories.
Six Guns And Saddle Leather
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Author : Ramon Frederick Adams
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 1998-02-25
Six Guns And Saddle Leather written by Ramon Frederick Adams and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-02-25 with History categories.
Authoritative guide to everything in print about lawmen and the lawless—from Billy the Kid to the painted ladies of frontier cow towns. Nearly 2,500 entries, taken from newspapers, court records, and more.
A Bibliography Of Alaskan Literature 1724 1924
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Author : James Wickersham
language : en
Publisher: Cordova, Alaska : Cordova daily times print
Release Date : 1927
A Bibliography Of Alaskan Literature 1724 1924 written by James Wickersham and has been published by Cordova, Alaska : Cordova daily times print this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1927 with Alaska categories.
Contains the titles of all histories, travels, voyages, newspapers, periodicals, public documents, etc., printed in English, Russian, German, French, Spanish, etc., relating to, descriptive of, or published in Russian America or Alaska, from 1724 to and including 1924.
Archeological Investigations In Skagway Alaska The Mascot Sallon
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Author : Catherine Holder Spude
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Archeological Investigations In Skagway Alaska The Mascot Sallon written by Catherine Holder Spude and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Alaska categories.
Outlaw Tales Of The Old West Fifty True Stories Of Desperados Crooks Criminals And Bandits
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Author : Erin H. Turner
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2016-06-03
Outlaw Tales Of The Old West Fifty True Stories Of Desperados Crooks Criminals And Bandits written by Erin H. Turner and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-03 with History categories.
This collection of fifty outlaw tales includes well-knowns such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Frank and Jesse James, Belle Starr (and her dad), and Pancho Villa, along with a fair smattering of women, organized crime bosses, smugglers, and of course the usual suspects: highwaymen, bank and train robbers, cattle rustlers, snake-oil salesmen, and horse thieves. Men like Henry Brown and Burt Alvord worked on both sides of the law either at different times of their lives or simultaneously. Clever shyster Soapy Smith and murderer Martin Couk survived by their wits, while the outlaw careers of the dimwitted DeAutremont brothers and bigmouthed Diamondfield Jack were severely limited by their intellect, or lack thereof. Nearly everyone in these pages was motivated by greed, revenge, or a lethal mixture of the two. The most bloodthirsty of the bunch, such as the heartless (and, some might argue, soulless) Annie Cook and trigger-happy Augustine Chacón, surely had evil written into their very DNA.
Dictionary Catalog Of The Stefansson Collection On The Polar Regions In The Dartmouth College Library
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Author : Stefansson Collection
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
Dictionary Catalog Of The Stefansson Collection On The Polar Regions In The Dartmouth College Library written by Stefansson Collection and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Polar regions categories.
Search And Rescue Alaska
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Author : Tracy Salcedo
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-02-24
Search And Rescue Alaska written by Tracy Salcedo and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-24 with Nature categories.
In a place as vast and extreme as Alaska, no one takes safety for granted. Whether adventurer or homesteader, tourist or native, people look out for themselves and for each other. But sometimes it just goes bad, and no amount of resourcefulness or resiliency can make it right. That’s when search and rescue teams kick into gear, launching operations by air and by land that have generated amazing tales of heroism, tenacity, and human kindness. Some of those stories have been gathered in Search and Rescue Alaska, including: Rescues on Denali, North America’s highest peak, from the mountain’s first search and rescue in 1932 to a rescue in 2017 that highlights the utility of modern equipment and decades of SAR experience A World War II search and rescue that ended with a remarkable recovery more than half a century later Rescues during the Good Friday quake of 1964 The rescue of mountaineering students and their instructors in the Chugach Range The rescue and recovery of Klondike-bound gold-seekers caught in an avalanche on the infamous Chilkoot Trail These stories and others in this compilation of essays will kindle a new appreciation for the skilled and selfless pilots, troopers, military personnel, and rangers on call for search and rescue in Alaska.