Soapy Smith: Gangster, Con Man and Old West Outlaw | American History Documentary
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- Опубліковано 12 лип 2024
- Jefferson Randolph Smith II, better known as Soapy Smith, was a well-known swindler and outlaw in 19th-century frontier America. Born in Coweta County, Georgia in 1860, he hailed from English descent. His family had arrived in America around 1760 and settled in Virginia.
0:00 Intro
3:25 The Life Of A Gangster
9:11 The Legacy Of A Con Artist
23:13 The Death Of An Outlaw
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Well done.
Soap! Soap with a prize inside!
Pity they never made any movies about him.
I think the soap guy on Deadwood, the HBO series, is loosely based on this guy.
Its pronunced COW-EAT-A county
Whatever issues you have needn’t be aired here. Go to a meeting.
Coweta is pronounced Cow-eat-a
Soapy reminds me, with his selling soap with money, of a little rascals episode where they made money at a birthday party cake , with valuable prizes in every bite!!!
slippery soapy.
Wait. So you getting off a train in a new city and you get steared into an investment opportunity.
When someone pulls out 3 card monte Game
and that doesn't raise any red flags??
Then you go ahead and get involved in that??
Wtf?
What a difference world!
When you mention that he posted "Let the Buyer Beware" in latin those were the days when Latin was taught in schools which were good, and probably the reason that an educated man would go in and gamble anyway is because so many people, from poor people looking to get rich easily to people with massive egos like doctors and lawyers quickly become addicted to gambling and cannot stop. I worked at the University of Mississippi Medical Center when Mississippi pulled its pants down and bent over and allowed casinos to open. It is illegal to gamble in Mississippi so they changed the word to gaming in the state legislature and promised all the State's take would go to funding education. Bull Nonsense. I worked in the publication department as the graph artist and did layout for small books and pamphlets and learned just how addictive gambling is. When it started the first class of people who went broke were doctors. These people who had God complex thought they could outsmart the casinos and when the lost all their available cash and their life savings they turned to wagering their homes and property and of course lost because all casinos are legally rigged so that the house wins. If you win it is because the dealer lets you win so that other people will think it's possible to win. At the other end of the spectrum were the poor. Pawn shops began to take in all sorts of things they had never seen before. The most outragous were brand new refrigerators, washers and dryers still in the box which had been purchased with credit cards and then pawned for the money. This, of course was known back in Soapy's day, Mark Twain even wrote a short story about gambling called something like "Is it gambling or a science" in which he details how the gambling is rigged based on scientific formulas. I know a couple from Virginia who were both math geniuses and when they finished with their PhDs they had massive student loan debt so they went to the casinos and used science against the house and won, breaking the bank at numerous casinos until, using the hidden cameras, casino securities discovered they were using the same technique as the dealers which make the game even, but because they were far more intelligent than the average dealer, they were winning every time. Not cheating, just playing it the same way the casinos did. So they were banned from every casino in the United States. But not until they had all the money they needed to pay off their student debts and have a lot left over. Mark Twain points out in his story that if casinos did not rig the game in their favor, few of them would be in business the second day after they opened. Since he published this story in the 1880s, you see that it has been know for a very long time.
So, Let the Buyer Beware is a sigh that could be translated "Only the Egotistical Fool is invited in"