“Old Bedlam” (officers’ quarters), Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Full size.

New-York Times / September 12, 1854

INDIAN OUTRAGES.

Important News from Fort Laramie -- Indians Attacking the Fort and Destroying the American Fur Company's Station -- Carrying off $15,000 Worth of Property.

LOUISVILLE, Monday, Sept. 11.

Information of an authentic nature had been received at St. Louis that about the middle of August a Sioux Indian killed an ox belonging to an emigrant near Fort Laramie. The Chief of the tribe thereupon sent a messenger to Lt. Fleming, the commander of the fort, requesting him to send a force, and he would deliver up

View full size. Two Skagway docks near where Soapy Smith was killed in 1898.

Skaguay, Alaska, Feels the Strong Grip of Military Rule.

Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette / July 23, 1898

Juneau, Alaska, July 17, by Steamer Al-Ki to Departure Bay, July 28 -- The town of Skaguay is still under martial law, and all saloons are closed. Twenty-six men who have been bound over by the United States commissioner have been taken to Sitka. County Surveyor Reid, who killed "Soapy" Smith recently, received a