Yesterday’s News Today
On this
day in 1898 the gang boss and confidence trickster Soapy Smith died. Smith got
his nickname from a particular con where he would sell soap at inflated prices
which came with the chance of winning money (hence why people paid the inflated
prices), however he carefully made sure that the biggest prizes went to his
fellow gang members to be recycled for the next game. In order to attract crowds
for this and other rigged games he would often create exciting attractions to
draw people in; one of these attractions was a petrified man named
McGuinty.
And now
the news:
The
gunfight that killed Soapy Smith, told through the medium of
song:
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