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  • 'That Fiend in Hell'
    Catherine Holder Spude
    As the Klondike gold rush peaked in spring 1898, adventurers and gamblers rubbed shoulders with town-builders and gold-panners in Skagway, Alaska. The flow of riches lured confidence men, too-among them Jefferson Randolph 'Soapy' Smith (1860-98), who with an entourage of 'bunco-men' conned and robbed the stampeders. Soapy, though, a common enough criminal, would go down in lege...
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  • Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory
    Catherine Holder Spude
    Prostitution, gambling, and saloons were a vital, if not universally welcome, part of life in frontier boomtowns. In Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory, Catherine Holder Spude explores the rise and fall of these enterprises in Skagway, Alaska, between the gold rush of 1897 and the enactment of Prohibition in 1918. Her gritty account offers a case study in ...
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