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Soapy Smith Real Photo Post Card

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:50.00 - 100.00 USD
Soapy Smith Real Photo Post Card
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This item SOLD at 2017 Aug 06 @ 14:08UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Unused, made in Seattle Washington, the post card has no stamp box and the undivided back indicates the card was made before 1907 when postal regulations required a divided back. Soapy was killed in a shoot out with a vigilante at Skagway Alaska in 1898 and notorious in the history of the Yukon Gold Rush. A con man and political fixer, Soapy found trouble in Denver and Creede Colorado before making his way to the Yukon.



On the evening of July 8,1898 a vigilance committee organized a meeting on the Juneau Wharf. With a Winchester rifle draped over his shoulder, Soapy began an argument with Frank H. Reid, one of four guards blocking his way to the wharf. A gunfight, known as the Shootout on Juneau Wharf began unexpectedly, and both men were fatally wounded. State: City: Date:1898 ID# 48947