Comments on: Soapy Smith’s Showdown With the Vigilantes http://www.historynet.com/soapy-smiths-showdown-with-the-vigilantes.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Sat, 25 May 2013 21:06:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Gateway to the North « Bite Size Canada http://www.historynet.com/soapy-smiths-showdown-with-the-vigilantes.htm#comment-891070 Gateway to the North « Bite Size Canada Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:31:29 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13687700#comment-891070 [...] Soapy Smith’s Showdown With the Vigilantes (historynet.com) [...] [...] Soapy Smith's Showdown With the Vigilantes (historynet.com) [...]

]]> By: Jeff Smith http://www.historynet.com/soapy-smiths-showdown-with-the-vigilantes.htm#comment-868917 Jeff Smith Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:23:46 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13687700#comment-868917 This is a reply to the person calling themselves \Soapy Smith:\ The evidence I used to conclude that Jesse Murphy killed Soapy Smith is not new, but it has just come to light, relatively speaking. The article is a very condensed version of several chapters in my book Alias Soapy Smith. I expected that there would be some resistance to the facts that support the Murphy shooting, however, the majority of historians are accepting the \new\ version including those in Skagway, Alaska and the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. Jeff Smith author of Alias Soapy Smith: The Life and Death of a Scoundrel This is a reply to the person calling themselves \Soapy Smith:\

The evidence I used to conclude that Jesse Murphy killed Soapy Smith is not new, but it has just come to light, relatively speaking. The article is a very condensed version of several chapters in my book Alias Soapy Smith. I expected that there would be some resistance to the facts that support the Murphy shooting, however, the majority of historians are accepting the \new\ version including those in Skagway, Alaska and the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park.

Jeff Smith
author of Alias Soapy Smith: The Life and Death of a Scoundrel

]]> By: Soapy Smith http://www.historynet.com/soapy-smiths-showdown-with-the-vigilantes.htm#comment-868172 Soapy Smith Thu, 07 Feb 2013 04:46:43 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13687700#comment-868172 This is a brash attempt at rewriting history. All this "new evidence that has just now come to light" is a bunch of bunk. This is a brash attempt at rewriting history. All this "new evidence that has just now come to light" is a bunch of bunk.

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