Witchflower's Garden of Miscellany: A Scalawag in Skagway

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Friday, July 8, 2005

A Scalawag in Skagway

Born in Georgia in 1860, Jefferson Randolph (Soapy) Smith went west while still a young man, finding work as a cowboy in Texas. He eventually tired of the hard work and low wages offered by the cowboy life, and discovered that he could make more money with less effort by convincing gullible... Sign in to see full entry.

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