Group of men outside City Hall, vigilantes preparing to go after the Soapy Smith Gang, Skagway, 1898

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• Subjects: Vigilance committees > Alaska > Skagway; City & town halls > Alaska > Skagway; Wooden buildings > Alaska > Skagway; Group portraits; Vigilantes > Alaska > Skagway; City halls > Alaska > Skagway; Skagway (Alaska) > Buildings; structures; etc; Vigilante; Skagway; Alaska
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Caption on image: Rounding up the Soapy Smith Gang Filed in Alaska--Cities--Skagway The lure of gold brought more than honest miners and foolish adventurers to the North. It also brought con men, thieves and opportunists who got rich by preying on gullible miners. Notorious among them was Jefferson...