Royal Alpine

Limited Edition Gold Rush Cemetery Collection Stickers and Magnets

$25.00 USD

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Type Limited Edition Gold Rush Cemetery Collection signed by the Artist

Small batch designs—made to order.

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Hand-signed by a local Alaskan Artist
Hand-numbered
Three stickers and three magnets
Authentic
Handmade
Original
High Value

Frank Reid is Skagway's hero, and Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith is Skagway's villain. Frank Reid shot and killed Soapy Smith on July 8th, 1898, in a wild west gun battle at the end of Juneau dock right here in Skagway.

And Soapy had it coming. He was a bad baaaaad man. Soapy was a confidence man, a con artist, and a sociopath, if not a full-blown psychopath. His powers of persuasion were so great that he ruled over Denver during its Wild West heyday for over a decade with the full Mafioso playbook: alcohol, drugs, guns, prostitution, gambling, bribery, graft, rigged games of chance, and an armed gang.

There's significant evidence that Al Capone — THE Al Capone — based his organization in Chicago directly on Soapy Smith. So we're talking about the Wild West's original gangster. Eventually, Denver got so sick of him that an angry group of politicians ran Soapy out of Denver with Gatlin Guns, Scarface Style.

Then Soapy drifted in the West for a time, looking for another town to grift because scamming two suckers at a county fair wasn't good enough for Soapy to get his hit of dopamine after ruling Denver. When the Klondike Goldrush hit, and Skagway was an utterly lawless frontier town with thousands of pounds of golden ore flooding the town, Soapy took over, becoming the Uncrowned King of Skagway.

For one summer, Soapy ruled Skagway with a preacher's voice in the mouth of a thief. This son of a bitch dared to ride around on a white horse wearing a white hat, pretending to be the good guy, making charitable donations to churches and setting up pension funds for widows whose husbands had starved or frozen in the Yukon. And all the while, Soapy was lying, stealing, and cheating almost everyone he met. Until Skagway got sick of him and Frank Reid dealt him a belly full of lead. Frontier justice in a frontier town.

So, the Wild West's baddest gangster lies here in the Gold Rush Cemetery in Alaska's raw land, where Gold is still Gold.

Rest in Hell, Soapy

This isn't just adhesive and ink. You're buying a memory. You're purchasing a moment, a piece of your Alaskan adventure, and you're buying from a man who cares. So, if you're looking to support a local Alaskan Artist, you have found one. Erin Gray is an Alaskan artist from Idaho, and his designs are handmade and authentic. Just like you, he's working to fulfill his dreams and buy a home so his daughter and grandchildren can always have a place to land, no matter how bad things get.

Never corporate. Never owned by the cruise ships. Royal Alpine designs represent the hard work of a self-made man who has refused to back down, no matter how many adversities have come and gone. A man who's making his way in Alaska one day at a time. A man who has lived his greatest adventures in Alaska and the Yukon and now lives to share yours. Let's live our adventures together.

Wear these designs with pride wherever you want. Choose between a durable vinyl sticker perfect for water bottles, laptops, and more, or a strong magnet for your fridge or any magnetic surface. Both feature the same eye-catching design.