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Soapy Smith's Grave

Skagway, AK

The grave of con man Jefferson 'Soapy' Smith stands in the Gold Rush Cemetery after his death in a waterfront gunfight in 1898. The marker is a specific pilgrimage point within the larger cemetery and should be visited respectfully.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: nps.gov/klgo/learn/historyculture/cemeteries.htm

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