Catherine Holder Spude: 2 books
"That Fiend in Hell"
Soapy Smith in Legend
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
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...
by Catherine Holder Spude
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
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...