Friday : At breakfast I had a nice conversation with a couple from Fort Worth, Texas. They already knew of Soapy and had seen the play here ...

Thursday : I just could not sleep last night. I am too excited. It was 2 a.m. before I could get to sleep, and then I woke up at 5 a.m. M y ...

I 'll be back March 1 from my Alaskan trip with hopefully some great stories to tell. Until then..

I was watching a rather mundane cartoon called, Phineas & Ferb with my thirteen-year-old son, Jefferson. I was bored to tears but it w...

I knew that news of Soapy's death in 1898 had reached most newspapers across the US but I did not know it reached over seas! The West A...

I never tire of talking about Soapy Smith (what was your first clue?). While I am in Anchorage, Alaska the local radio station there wants ...

I received an update from Karl Gurcke of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, Skagway division, on the progress of restoring Je...

(click to enlarge) Attention family members! I have been attempting to help Jett Smith with his family history in which he believes there i...

I n October of 1891 reformers and religious organizations joined together in an attempt to rid Denver saloons and gambling, calling themselv...

(From the Anchorage Daily News.com ) Soapy meets Sophocles Play reveals the famished soul in Alaska's most notorious con man By Mike Dun...

(click to enlarge) O ur friend, John Richards jr., over at Footnotes sent us a newspaper clipping, The Shah of Skaguay from the San Franci...

"I find people putting their money into savings banks. Now, this is dead wrong. The faro bank is the only safe bank. It is run by honor...

C yrano’s Theatre Company in Anchorage, Alaska is presenting, The Ballad of Soapy Smith by Michael Weller and directed by Dick Reichman, be...

I n the February 2009 newsletter of the Academy of Magical Arts. Inc., the first sign of the upcoming Soapy Smith wake (July 8, 2009) is see...