Roulette wheel from Soapy Smith's saloon in Skagway, Alaska, ca. 1890

• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1890
• Subjects: Gold Rush; Service Industry; 19th century; Entertainment; Saloon; Skagway; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/13476

This roulette wheel once belonged to the infamous con man, Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith, who arrived in Skagway, Alaska, in 1897, during the Klondike Gold Rush. Soapy Smith was reputed to have rigged his roulette wheel, marked his cards and ran a Skagway gang, marking him as the "...