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Alias Soapy Smith: The Life and Death of a Scoundrel by Jeff Smith, Klondike Research, Juneau, Alaska, 2009, $26. Firearms figure only occasionally—albeit significantly when they do—in Jefferson Randolph Smith II’s life of crime. His claim to fame rests primarily on his wit, charm and underhanded deviousness as Soapy Smith, the West’s most renowned bunco …
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