March 4, 2011

Soapy Smith and the burros of Creede.

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Following is another interesting past correspondence that did not make it into my book, involving Soapy's supposed charity to Creede, Colorado mining burros in 1892. The 1979 letter is addressed to my father, from Ken Butler of Oklahoma.


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