THE REIGN OF SOAPY SMITHWilliam Ross Collier & Edwin Victor WestrateDoubleday, Doran ($2.50).
Only a few summer tourists now go to Skagway, Alaska, but at the height of the Yukon gold rush (1897-98) 75,000 of them tumbled hopefully ashore to seek their fortune or somebody else's. Today Skagway is a ghost town, but one of its ghosts has left his marka 30-ft. skull carved on the face of a cliff. That is Skagway's memorial to Soapy Smith.
Though Skagway was his last resting place, Denver still remembers Jefferson Randolph Smith as one of the...
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