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The “Soapy” Smith Tragedy. Skagway: Shea & Patton, 1907. Green wraps decorated in silver. Photographs, including images of “The notorious “Soapy” Smith in the morgue, July 8th, 1898.” Oblong 8vo. Edges of wraps a trifle worn; very good. Scarce. 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.