soapy smith tragedy (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 12mo. Oblong Stapled Wrap. [ca. 20 pp.] B&W Plates. Very Good with Age Toning, Creasing.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pictorial wrappers, a very good copy. The rare first edition. Six Guns: "This exceedingly rare little book is said to have been written by H.B. LeFevre [sic], of Skagway. It is a condensed history of the reign of terror and outlawry in White Pass and the Skagway country in 1898, the formation of the vigilance committee, Soapy Smith's counter organization of thugs and cutthroats known as the 'Law and Order Committee of 303,' and the killing of Soapy and the breaking up of his gang." William Reese Company catalog description: "An early, illustrated source for the life and misdeeds of the con artist and swindler, Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith, the most notorious outlaw of the Klondike Gold Rush in Alaska. Known best for swindling his victims through his gambling dens, saloons, and auction houses, Smith's criminal behavior began in Colorado when he was not yet twenty, and ended with his death at age thirty-seven in a shoot-out on a wharf in Skagway. The many photographic illustrations are from images by the Case & Draper firm of Sitka, and show Soapy Smith, his victims, and his stomping grounds, as well as several morgue photographs of Smith's corpse." KURUTZ, KLONDIKE 529. HOWES L229: "Stirring events on the Alaska frontier in 1898, final killing of Smith and dispersal of his outlaw gang." WICKERSHAM 1606. TOURVILLE 2672. SMITH, PACIFIC NORTHWEST AMERICANA 9385. SOLIDAY IV:19. Spude, Catherine Holder, "THAT FIEND IN HELL": SOAPY SMITH IN LEGEND (Norman, Ok. 2012):"The booklet was no doubt intended to promulgate jokes, laughter, and barroom conversations about local politics. No one, especially its creator, meant for it to be taken seriously, much less to promulgate a legend.".

Hardcover. Zustand: FINE. Unpaginated [23pp]. Oblong 8vo, printed in Sepia with text on the verso of 13 plates. Staplebound in Navy Blue wraps with silver printed title above dogsled image. Wrappers worn around the edges, faint stain to front tail near spine, text shows some use and a few smudges, sound and unmarked otherwise. 'This exceedingly rare little book is said to have been written by H. B. LeFevre, of Skagway. t is a condensed history of the reign of terror and outlawry in White Pass and the Skagway country in 1898, the formation of the vigilance committee, Soapy Smith's counter organization of thugs and cutthroats known as the 'Law and Order Committee of 303, ' and the killing of Soapy and the breaking up of his gang.' (Adams, Six-Guns 1988; See also Howes, U.S.iana L226) Adams notes only one binding, namely Red wrappers with string tied binding. Our copy in Navy matches the one held by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Rare Books Collection. We found no evidence to establish any priority of the two.