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Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith II (November 2, 1860 – July 8, 1898) was an American con artist and gangster in the American frontier, and ultimately the Klondike. Smith operated confidence schemes across the Western United States, and had a large hand in organized criminal operations in both Colorado and the District of Alaska. Smith gained ...
Nov 16, 2009 · A disgruntled city engineer in Skagway, Alaska, murders “Soapy” Smith, one of the most notorious con men in the history of the West. Born in Georgia in 1860, Jefferson Randolph Smith went west...
Jun 12, 2006 · About half a dozen of the men who had, in their way, helped make Jeff Smith — better known as Soapy Smith — the most prosperous and influential citizen in Skagway ran to tell their friends the awful news, and then to get out of town — fast.
Nov 19, 2013 · Alaska’s history is peppered with crooks, cons and other characters famous for running afoul of the law. One of them is Soapy Smith, whose travels brought him briefly to the Kenai Peninsula.
Soapy Smith was the last of his kind, an old west crime figure who refused to give up the old ways for a constantly changing, modernizing nation. He was shot dead in a horrific gunfight while facing angry vigilantes on July 8, 1898.
Mar 18, 2013 · In September 1897, Jefferson Randolph Smith arrived in Skagway, Alaska, to make his fortune. Most people headed north to strike it rich in the gold fields. Smith had other ideas. Smith was already better known in various American locales as Soapy Smith, the king of the con men.
Feb 5, 2023 · The most notorious Wild West scoundrel of the 1800s who ran a band of con men to cheat miners and tenderfeet of their money and gold. From Denver and Creede, Colorado to Skagway, Alaska Soapy ...
Mar 25, 2024 · Soapy Smith, a man with a violent streak and a short fuse, was one of the most successful chiselers—until he wasn't. From Cowboy to Con Man. Jefferson Randolph Smith II arrived in an unsuspecting Wild West from Georgia in 1876.
In this book, from Georgia to Texas, from Denver and the silver and gold boom-towns of Colorado, to Mexico and the Western states to the great Northwest, and to the last frontier, Alaska, you will travel with Soapy Smith to his criminal empires and final bold, deadly showdown with vigilantes.
Meet Jefferson “Soapy” Smith – Alaska’s most notorious outlaw. The events depicted in The Days of ’98 Show are taken from the Skagway historical record and center on Soapy Smith’s reign over the town during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897 and 1898.
