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The “Soapy” Smith Tragedy. Skagway: Shea & Patton, 1907. Light red pictorial wraps. Illustrated with halftone photographs, including death-bed, morgue, and autopsy images of Smith. Oblong 8vo. [24]pp. Edges of wraps a trifle worn; very good. Scarce. Jefferson Randolph ex-libris stamps to front cover. Smith was perhaps the most infamous con man and gambler of the Gold Rush era. He ran saloons in Denver before settling in Alaska, where he opened a variety of businesses, all with one aim: to swindle his patrons and relieve them of all of their capital. Smith died in a shootout on Juneau Wharf on July 8, 1898.