F rom the cover page of the June 2009 Magic Castle Newsletter. JOIN THE LAW AND ORDER COMMITTEE OF 317! Soapy Smith's Law & Order Co...

(click image to enlarge) Here “Soapy” Smith and his gang of outlaws and murders operated along the trail; here he was killed; here is his di...

( click image to enlarge) The Skaguay News , December 31, 1897 A very nice link on the main website is Alaska's Gold a n educational ...

(Image from The Gentle Grifter , 1919) With regard to Mr. Soapy Smith’s business, to be sure he wraps up a $50-bill in a soap package, puts ...

T he following story comes from Robert N. De Armond's book, “Stroller” White: Klondike Newsman , Lynn Canal Publishing, 1989. THE HOT CA...

M y publisher, Art Petersen is a retired English professor and an Alaskan historian. For the last several year I have had the pleasure of sw...

The Taney boarding house as it looked in 1915. S oapy Smith is listed as living in the Taney boarding house in 1883. This would only be know...

(click image to enlarge) Courtesy of Cliff Welsh The 1902 capture of Ed LaBelle I received an interesting email from Cliff Welsh, Heidi'...

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(click image to enlarge) A t the start of the Klondike gold rush in 1896 the boundary lines were not clear between the United States and Can...

T hat time of year is approaching. The annual Soapy Smith Wake at Skagway, Alaska and the Magic Castle in Hollywood, California. The first ...

"Among the other casualties reported from the Klondike must be reckoned the circumstance that Soapy Smith has not yet been lynched....

(Click image to enlarge) I found an 1898 sterioview of Dyea, Alaska that I believe dates to its founding in 1897. Dyea was Skagway's ri...

I apologize for the recent slowness of posts. I am feverishly pouring through my manuscript that the publisher needs ASAP. We are now shoot...

(Click image to enlarge) I received this postcard in the mail today. The photograph, circa 1965, is of the inside of Jeff Smith's Parlo...