SOAPY SMITH – KING OF THE KLONDIKE CONMEN
― David Ellis ∙ ∙ THE self-styled 'Reverend' Charles Bowers and 'Colonel' Jefferson Smith were thinking neither the word of the Lord nor the Law when they arrived in frontier Skagway, Alaska in 1897 – it was the gleaming metal of the Klondike Gold Rush they were after. ∙ But they had no intention of clambering torturous mountain trails to get to it. ∙ Rather they planned on making their fortunes doing what they did best – conning the gullible with notorious pea [...].
