Soapy Smith
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Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith II was an American con artist and gangster in the American frontier and the Klondike.
Smith at bar in Skagway, Alaska in 1898
1898, Soap Gang pictured
2009, before restoration
Newspaper headline about the fight
Sam Bass (outlaw)
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Samuel Bass was a 19th-century American train robber, outlaw, and outlaw gang leader. Notably, he led a gang of six that robbed a Union Pacific train in Nebraska in September 1877, stealing $60,000 wo
Soapy Smith
…his career as a confidence man. In 1877, Smith's mother died and he left home shortly thereafter, but not before witnessing the death of the outlaw Sam Bass in 1878. Smith moved to Fort Worth, Texas, where he formed a close-knit, disciplined gang of shills and thieves to work for him. He quickly became a…
Tombstone marking the grave of Sam Bass, Round Rock Cemetery, Round Rock, Texas