"That fiend in hell"
Subtitle: Soapy Smith in legend
By: Catherine Holder Spude
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780806142807
Subjects: Swindlers and swindling; Biography; History
Other titles: Soapy Smith in legend
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Authentication.; title: Conceived in lawlessness; title: The committee of one hundred and one; title: A con gone wrong; title: A lie agreed upon; title: The legend.; title: The local legend-makers; title: The journalists and the memoirs; title: Skagway tourism; title: A literary legacy; title: Legend, heroes, and myth.