A s the date closes in on my manuscript publication it seems I am becoming busier. Once again I am going out of town (March 26 to March 30)...

(click image to enlarge) THE SOAP GANG T he following newspaper article from The New York Evening Post , October 26, 1907. is based on the ...

(click image to enlarge) I f I may be so bold as to toot my own horn for a minute. I received a nice letter from Sandy Harper of Cyrano'...

I n some of the older Soapy Smith biographies there are references that Soapy and the infamous lawman/gambler, Wyatt Earp, knew one another....

He owns the town. A world of meaning is contained in that expression. He has it to do with it what he will in so far as all professional swi...

(click image to enlarge) Main street, Creede, Colorado, 1892 L ooking closely at the photograph above, at the far end of the street you can ...

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I f you ever wondered what it must have been like for the Klondike stampeders in 1897-1898 then this video series is a must. Unfortunately, ...

(click image to enlarge) I found this previously unknown (at least to my research) photograph of Creede, Colorado's disastrous fire fr...

HAPPY St. PATRICK'S DAY T his holiday meant little to me as a kid, except having to wear green or suffer agonizing pain at school. In fa...

O n March 2, 2009 I posted a slide show that showed me holding the world's largest gold nugget watch chain. I have since found a 1900s d...

The Nigerian Soapy Smith? W hile looking around the Net I came across the Tinbasher Blog , a metal fabrication company in the UK. It seems t...

T he original artwork by artist, Diane Mastel, that went on the VHS boxes for the 1941 Clark Gable film, Honky Tonk , are for sale on eBay ...

"I f there is vigor in the law Soapy Smith will be sent to the penitentiary. He is a professional swindler and has attempted murder bef...

D uring my trip to Anchorage, Alaska my wish to visit the ghost towns of Hope and Sunrise located around Resurrection and Sixmile creeks was...