J ay S mith H artzell 11/21/1944 - 07/24/2008 J ay Smith Hartzell, son of Judith Smith and great-grandson of Jefferson “Soapy” Sm...

H i, Gang. I never ceased to be amazed at who finds our website and writes in. Today was no exception. The great-grand-daughter of U.S...

O n July 21, 1878 famed Texas outlaw, Sam Bass is shot and killed during a foiled bank robbery attempt in Round Rock, Texas. 17-year-old Jef...

                    H i Gang,      H ere is a photo of my son Jefferson Randolph Smith (gg-grandson of Soapy) and myself on the stage of the...

Through the website we have found family members...or more properly, they have found us! Today, Elizabeth Moriarty wrote Jeff. They may be m...

  I came across this old postcard on-line of Denver and Rio Grande engine #41. This engine shipped supplies and passengers to Creede, Colora...

     While editing my book this afternoon I ran into some spelling differences in one of Soapy Smith's long time attorney's, Edgar C...