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Catherine Holder Spude
A tour de force of historical debunking that documents Randolph 'Soapy' Smith's elevation to western hero. In sorting out the facts about this man and his death from fiction, Catherine…
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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…
Tracking down some hundred retellings of the Soapy Smith story, this book traces the efforts of Skagway’s boosters to reinforce a morality tale at the expense of a complex story…
Will Woodin
A combined memoir and diary of an 1898 Klondike expedition from the rare perspective of a working-class participant –Provided by publisher.
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Archaeologists, historians, and ethnologists discuss their interlinking studies of the towns, trails, and mining districts that figured in the northern gold rushes, including the first sustained account of the archaeology…
