Cathy Spude's Blog – November 2009 Archive (1)

I finally got my copy of Jeff Smith's ALIAS SOAPY SMITH: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A SCOUNDREL by Soapy Smith's great grandson, Jeff Smith. As expected, the biography is a hagiography. Couldn't be anything but, coming from family. Smith does his best to correct details of the story, and as the benefactor of his family's long history of collecting letters, clippings, and arcania about the Soapster, he certainly has a wealth of material about the man who tried so hard to make himself a legend in his… Continue