I recently found this earlier photograph of Soapy's Orleans Club (far right, under flag) in Creede, Colorado. The sign, shown in my bo...

(Click image to enlarge) P hotograph sent in by family member Sarah Moriarty showing Soapy's son and two of his eleven children on the ...

(Click image to enlarge) A great photograph from the Sarah Moriarty Collection showing Soapy's son, Jefferson Randolph Smith III on th...

F rom the Sarah Moriarty Collection, this fine photograph of Soapy's son, Jefferson Randolph Smith III and Florence Sprague, his secon...

(Click image to enlarge) FOR THE LATEST UPDATED INFORMATION ON JAMES LUTHER SMITH OCT 23, 2022 F amily member, Sarah Moriarty sent in t...

(Click image to enlarge) WHO IS SHE? S arah Moriarty sent me an email yesterday with a photo of M. Campion. I assume this is her married n...

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(Click image to enlarge) W hile Jeff was in Denver, on June 5, 1892, a disaster of the worst kind struck Creede: fire. It had previously b...

(Click image to enlarge) Front view (Click image to enlarge) Rear view Jeff and his men arrived in Creede sometime after October 4, 1891...

(Click image to enlarge) O ne of my long time collector friends, Jerry H., sent in the above cabinet card of lower Creede showing the main ...

(Click image to enlarge) E very once in a while I run across photographs of Soapy Smith that I have never seen before. I thought I had foun...

E ver wonder what it must have been like for the gold stampeders of 1897-98 to hike the trails. Jeff Brady, owner of The Skagway News , an...

I n 1897 F. La Roche, a Seattle photographer traveled to Alaska to shoot pictures for a booklet (see above). The following photos are from...

T he above photographs above are a nice 100 year comparison. On the left side of each photograph the Mascot Saloon, the Clipper buildi...

I n my book I talk about the content of the William DeVere poem, Two Little Busted Shoes written in 1892 about the human side of the Soap ...