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Author : Jeff Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780981974309
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (743 download)
Download or read book Alias Soapy Smith written by Jeff Smith and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine Holder Spude
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806188189
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book "That Fiend in Hell" written by Catherine Holder Spude and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 legend as the Robin Hood of Alaska, the “uncrowned king of Skagway,” remembered for his charm and generosity, even for calming a lynch mob. When the Fourth of July was celebrated in ’98, he supposedly led the parade. Then, a few days later, he was dead, killed in a shootout over a card game. With Smith’s death, Skagway rid itself of crime forever. Or at least, so the story goes. Journalists immediately cast him as a martyr whose death redeemed a violent town. In fact, he was just a petty criminal and card shark, as Catherine Holder Spude proves definitively in “That Fiend in Hell”: Soapy Smith in Legend, a tour de force of historical debunking that documents Smith’s elevation to western hero. In sorting out the facts about this man and his death from fiction, Spude concludes that the actual Soapy was not the legendary “boss of Skagway,” nor was he killed by Frank Reid, as early historians supposed. She shows that even eyewitnesses who knew the truth later changed their stories to fit the myth. But why? Tracking down some hundred retellings of the Soapy Smith story, Spude traces the efforts of Skagway’s boosters to reinforce a morality tale at the expense of a complex story of town-building and government formation. The idea that Smith’s death had made a lawless town safe served Skagway’s economic interests. Spude’s engaging deconstruction of Soapy’s story models deep research and skepticism crucial to understanding the history of the American frontier.
Author : Margot Kahn
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806183632
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Horses That Buck written by Margot Kahn and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When asked in an interview what he most liked about rodeo, three-time world champion saddle-bronc rider “Cody” Bill Smith said simply, “Horses that buck.” Smith redefined the image of America’s iconic cowboy. Determined as a boy to escape a miner’s life in Montana, he fantasized a life in rodeo and went on to earn thirteen trips to the national finals, becoming one of the greatest of all riders. This biography puts readers in the saddle to experience the life of a champion rider in his quest for the gold buckle. Drawing on interviews with Smith and his family and friends, Margot Kahn recreates the days in the late 1960s and early 1970s when rodeo first became a major sports enterprise. She captures the realities of that world: winning enough money to get to the next competition, and competing even when in pain. She also tells how, in his career’s second phase, Smith married cowgirl Carole O’Rourke and went into business raising horses, gaining notoriety for his gentle hand with animals and winning acclaim for his and Carole’s Circle 7 brand. Inducted into the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1979 and the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s Rodeo Hall of Fame in 2000, Smith was a legend in his own time. His story is a genuine slice of rodeo life—a life of magic for those good enough to win. This book will delight rodeo and cowboy enthusiasts alike.
Author : Jane Haigh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780962753077
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (53 download)
Download or read book King Con written by Jane Haigh and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herbert Asbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Gangs of New York written by Herbert Asbury and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen J. Cannell
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062034693
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book King Con written by Stephen J. Cannell and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to creating unforgettable criminal characters, nobody does it better than Emmy Award winner Stephen J. Cannell, the force behind such acclaimed TV hits as "The Rockford Files," "The Commish," "Wiseguy," and "The A-Team." Now come Cannell's most engaging characters yet—a spirited assortment of clever con artists.King Con vs. The Don Raised in a world of flimflams, come-ons and con-jobs, Beano Bates has done so well he's earned a spot on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List. But his lucky streak vanishes after a card game in which he scams a cool eighty grand from a notorious Mafia don—who retaliates by having Beano nearly beaten to death. For the first time in his legendary career, Beano wants more than a big score—he wants justice. Aided by a beautiful, no-nonsense female prosecutor and a legion of crafty cousins, all accomplished grifters, Beano, the king of the cons, puts together the ultimate swindle—a well-planned sting of strategy, skill and deception. The target is America's most feared mob kingpin and his psychopathic brother. And in this game, winner takes all!
Author : Russell Ash
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312545355
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Morecock, Fartwell, & Hoare written by Russell Ash and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s a baby born every minute and each one has to be named. In this book, you’ll find an insanity of nomenclature that beggars belief. Russell Ash has trawled birth, marriage, and death certificates, phone books, and censuses going back centuries to compile a compendium of breathtakingly unlikely-but-true names. Why on earth would Mr. and Mrs. O’Shea name their son Rick? What were the Fants thinking when they named their child Elle? Or Mr. and Mrs. Royd, for that matter, when naming their daughter Emma? Or how about Everard Cock, Page Turner, or Sally Forth? In this painstakingly researched, utterly true, riotously entertaining collection, readers will discover real-life examples of some of the most unusual, crude, and shocking names ever, presenting a laugh-out-loud overview of eccentricity through the ages.
Author : George Tower Buffum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Smith of Bear City written by George Tower Buffum and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminiscences of frontier life of the 1880's, with chapters on Soapy Smith, Clay Allison, Curly Bill Brocius, etc. gamblers and gunfighters, mining in Idaho, and New Mexico, and the Deadwood Stagecoach.
Author : E. E. Smith
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Gray Lensman written by E. E. Smith and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gray Lensman" by E. E. Smith. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Brian Castner
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 : 0385544510
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Stampede written by Brian Castner and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping and wholly original account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98. One hundred thousand men and women rushed heedlessly north to make their fortunes; very few did, but many thousands of them died in the attempt. In 1897, the United States was mired in the worst economic depression that the country had yet endured. So when all the newspapers announced gold was to be found in wildly enriching quantities at the Klondike River region of the Yukon, a mob of economically desperate Americans swarmed north. Within weeks tens of thousands of them were embarking from western ports to throw themselves at some of the harshest terrain on the planet--in winter yet--woefully unprepared, with no experience at all in mining or mountaineering. It was a mass delusion that quickly proved deadly: avalanches, shipwrecks, starvation, murder. Upon this stage, author Brian Castner tells a relentlessly driving story of the gold rush through the individual experiences of the iconic characters who endured it. A young Jack London, who would make his fortune but not in gold. Colonel Samuel Steele, who tried to save the stampeders from themselves. The notorious gangster Soapy Smith, goodtime girls and desperate miners, Skookum Jim, and the hotel entrepreneur Belinda Mulrooney. The unvarnished tale of this mass migration is always striking, revealing the amazing truth of what people will do for a chance to be rich.
Author : Sue Henry
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062045938
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Death Takes Passage written by Sue Henry and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History is repeating itself on hundred years later on Alaska's breathtaking Inside Passage. Re-creating the famous Voyage of 1897, the Spirit of '98 is setting sail from Skagway, Alaska, en route to Seattle, Washington, carrying two tons of Yukon gold. Alaska State Trooper Alex Jensen and his love, famous female "musher" Jessie Arnold, are among the excited participants. The Grim Reaper is a passenger as well. Dressed in period coustoume, Gold Rush buff Alex Jensen is only too happy to be representing the Troopers on this historic journey through a giant maze of scenic straits, harbors, and inlets. But the strange disappearance -- and probable death -- of a crew member pulls Alex rudely back to the present. As the only law officer in the vicinity, it is now his duty to unravel a twisted skein of lies, greed, and lethal shipboard secrets -- before the Spirit's fateful encounter with murderers abroad a stolen ketch writes a grim new chapter in Alaska's history.
Author : Stan Sauerwein
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 9781554390113
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Soapy Smith written by Stan Sauerwein and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1897, the Klondike Gold Rush brought thousands of hopeful prospectors to the North. With them came many scoundrels and swindlers who were willing to do whatever it took to separate unsuspecting targets from their hard-earned cash. No swindler was more successful at his craft than Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith, who ruled Skagway, Alaska with a quick hand and a scheming mind. This book explores his most outrageous escapades.
Author : Margaret Ann Richek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780395750513
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (55 download)
Download or read book The World of Words written by Margaret Ann Richek and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Dudney
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471480673
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (714 download)
Download or read book J2EE AntiPatterns written by Bill Dudney and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-08-19 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The flip-side of Patterns, AntiPatterns provide developers with formal descriptions of common development gaffes that can derail a project along with practical guidelines on how to avoid them. In this book, the authors present dozens of Java AntiPatterns that tackle many of Java's biggest trouble spots for programming with EJB, JSP, Servlets, and more. Each AntiPattern is documented with real-world examples, code, and refactored (or escape-route) solutions, and the book uses UML (where appropriate) to diagram improved solutions. All code examples from the book are available to the reader on the book's companion Web site."
Author : James A. Duke
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420040480
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book CRC Handbook of Medicinal Spices written by James A. Duke and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-09-27 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Let food be your medicine, medicine your food."-Hippocrates, 2400 B.C.When the "Father of Medicine" uttered those famous words, spices were as important for medicine, embalming, preserving food, and masking bad odors as they were for more mundane culinary matters. Author James A. Duke predicts that spices such as capsicum, cinnamon, garlic, ginger
Author : Thayer Tolles
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588395057
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book The American West in Bronze, 1850-1925 written by Thayer Tolles and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2013 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Themes of the American West have been enduringly popular, and 'The American West in Bronze' features sixty-five iconic bronzes that display a range of subjects, from portrayals of the noble Indian to rough-and-tumble scenes of rowdy cowboys to tributes to the pioneers who settled the lands west of the Mississippi. Fascinating texts offer a fresh look at the roles that artists played in creating interpretations of the "vanishing West"--Whether based on fact, fiction or something in-between. These artists, including Charles M. Russell and Frederic Remington, embody a range of life experiences and artistic approaches."'The American West in Bronze, 1850-1925' is the first full-scale exhibition to explore the aesthetic and cultural impulses behind the creation of statuettes with American western themes, which have been so popular with audiences then and now. Both the exhibition and this accompanying catalogue offer a fresh look at the multifaceted roles played by these sculptors in creating three-dimensional interpretations of western life, whether based on historical fact, mythologized fiction, or most often, something in-between. Examples by such archetypal representatives of the West as Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell are complemented by the work of sculptors such as James Earle Fraser and Paul Manship, who contributed to the popularity of the American bronze statuette even though their western subjects were less frequent."--Publisher's description.
Author : Cormac Ó Gráda
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719040351
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Ireland Before and After the Famine written by Cormac Ó Gráda and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Cormac O'Grada's study expands upon his central arguments about the agricultural and demographic developments surrounding the Great Irish Famine. It provides new statistical information, new appendices and integrated responses to the new research and writing on the subject that has appeared since the publication of the first edition in 1987.
