That Fiend in Hell: Soapy Smith in Legend

by Catherine Holder Spude

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806193956
• ISBN13: 9780806193953
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"