Members of the Jefferson "Soapy" Smith gang, vicinity of Skagway, ca. 1898
Handwritten on verso: No. 1 Charlie Walker, No. 2 Doc Boyle, No. 6 Spencer (?), No. 7 Bill Pike, No. 8 Malamute Kid. Sopay Smith 4th from right. 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 pr...
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ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:portraits/1610 2023-05-15T18:19:53+02:00 Members of the Jefferson "Soapy" Smith gang, vicinity of Skagway, ca. 1898 Unidentified University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division United States--Alaska--Skagway circa 1898 Scanned from a photographic print at 100-150 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2015 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/portraits/id/1610 unknown Portraits Collection Portraits Collection. PH Coll 563 POR1561 University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, [Order Number or Negative Number] UW3781 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/portraits/id/1610 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/ For information on permissions for use and reproductions please visit UW Libraries Special Collections Use Permissions page: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/permission-for-use University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Photograph; image StillImage 1898 ftuwashingtonlib 2021-01-16T23:48:26Z Handwritten on verso: No. 1 Charlie Walker, No. 2 Doc Boyle, No. 6 Spencer (?), No. 7 Bill Pike, No. 8 Malamute Kid. Sopay Smith 4th from right. 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 "Soapy" Smith, whose gang of over 100 ruffians ruled Skagway in 1897 and 1898. He ran crooked gambling halls, freight companies that hauled nothing, telegraph offices that had no telegraph link, even an "army enlistment" tent where the victim's clothes and possessions were stolen while a "doctor" gave him a physical. His men met newcomers at the docks posing as clergymen, newspaper reporters, knowledgeable old-timers and freight company representatives. After sizing up a fellow with a fat wallet, they would direct him to one of Soapy's bogus businesses or mark him for a later robbery. Soapy met his end when he and his thugs fleeced a miner of $2,800 in gold. The miner, instead of slinking away beaten, fired up the citizens of Skagway who formed a vigilante committee headed by Frank Reid, a civil engineer. Reid stood up to Soapy and shot him in the heart, but was fatally wounded in the shootout. [Source: http://www.library.state.ak.us/goldrush/stories/soapy.htm] To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/reproduction/reproduction Please cite the Order Number Still Image Skagway Alaska University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections Vigilante ENVELOPE(-69.983,-69.983,-69.983,-69.983) |
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Handwritten on verso: No. 1 Charlie Walker, No. 2 Doc Boyle, No. 6 Spencer (?), No. 7 Bill Pike, No. 8 Malamute Kid. Sopay Smith 4th from right. 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 "Soapy" Smith, whose gang of over 100 ruffians ruled Skagway in 1897 and 1898. He ran crooked gambling halls, freight companies that hauled nothing, telegraph offices that had no telegraph link, even an "army enlistment" tent where the victim's clothes and possessions were stolen while a "doctor" gave him a physical. His men met newcomers at the docks posing as clergymen, newspaper reporters, knowledgeable old-timers and freight company representatives. After sizing up a fellow with a fat wallet, they would direct him to one of Soapy's bogus businesses or mark him for a later robbery. Soapy met his end when he and his thugs fleeced a miner of $2,800 in gold. The miner, instead of slinking away beaten, fired up the citizens of Skagway who formed a vigilante committee headed by Frank Reid, a civil engineer. Reid stood up to Soapy and shot him in the heart, but was fatally wounded in the shootout. [Source: http://www.library.state.ak.us/goldrush/stories/soapy.htm] To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/reproduction/reproduction Please cite the Order Number |
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