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Jefferson Randolph Soapy Smith II was an American con artist and gangster in the American frontier. Smith operated confidence schemes across the Western United States and had a large hand in organized criminal operations in both Colorado and the District of Alaska. Soapy's only measure of a man was the wallet he could empty from the day he learned how to cheat at cards, hide the pea in a shell game or invent a scam. He counted few but his gang-members as friends and foisted his scandalous bad habits for theft on everyone else with the cold calculation of a mob boss. He cheated at everything from cards to love. Over several years of learning the fine art of flim-flam, he developed a glib, friendly persona and it fit perfectly with his dark, brooding good looks, but it was a hard-earned experience. Soapy began his life of crime as a cowpuncher who then became a victim. He quickly learned it was easier to scam the gullible than rob them with a weapon. Then death, like a pickpocket on Soapy's payroll, took his life in a flurry of gunshots and Soapy was gone...but not forgotten.

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