| Born in Saxony, Germany on March 7, 1876. Yerbysmith (né Ernst Alfred Schmidt) immigrated to the U.S. in 1886. After a brief time as a busboy in the hotels of NYC, he rode the rails to San Francisco. There he shipped out as a cabin boy on a four-masted schooner bound for the Orient. He later worked on a cattle ranch before joining the U.S. Cavalry to fight in the Spanish-American War. Following his discharge, he struck it rich in the gold mines of the Klondike, but (showing 500 of 1585 characters). |
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