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-quarters st
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