White/Caucasian. Frank H. Reid, a 54-year-old male, stood watch on the night of July 8, 1898, at the mouth of Skagway's Juneau Wharf as townspeople convened a mass meeting to wrest control of their boomtown from Jefferson “Soapy” Smith's criminal syndicate. Reid—a former soldier turned city surveyor and engineer—was one of four guards posted to keep gang members away from the gathering. When Soapy strode down the planks with a Winchester across his shoulder, words flared into a close-qua
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