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Wise Smith and Soapy Smiths Soap Game Tale
Horse Smith of Montana recounts meeting Soapy Smith and learning the soap game a get rich quick scheme. He describes selling a soap box with a five dollar bill inside and fleeing to new towns, cashing in about eighteen thousand seven hundred dollars before a betrayal. He ends by noting a final meeting with an old partner Gaffney and a return to normal life.
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Saya J
Jay Gould
Jesse James
Horse Smith
Montana
Parte
Soapy Smith
Ben Parker
Aberdeen
Hecla
Twin Cities
Orringer
Minneapolis
Jay
Gaffney
Indiana
Minnesota
Smith
Crookston
Chicago
Measley
Fellows
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