Members of the Dodge City, Kansas, Peace Commission, from left to right: Chas. Bassett, W. H. Harris, Wyatt Earp, Luke Short, L. McLean, Bat Masterson, Neal Brown. The photograph was taken by Camillus S. Fly in 1890.

Related: The Notorious Luke Short Shot

STRIKERS IN AMBUSH FIRE ON THE SHERIFF’S POSSE.

RIFLES IN THE HANDS OF THE KNIGHTS DEFEAT THE OFFICERS, WHO WERE FORCED TO RETREAT WITH THEIR WOUNDED -- GREAT EXCITEMENT IN THE TOWN.

Newspaper Account / April 3, 1886

FORT WORTH, TEXAS, April 3. -- At 10 o’clock this morning 1,500 persons assembled at the Missouri Pacific Station to see Sheriff Maddox send out a train, which he said last night he would do or die in the attempt.

Cowboys take in a gray wolf on “Round Up” in Wyoming. 1887 photograph by John Grabill. Larger.

NEW-YORK TIMES, June 30, 1865

FROM UTAH. The Red Man -- What Shall be Done With Him?

GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, Friday, June 2, 1865.

What to do with the red men is still a problem which, it appears, cannot be satisfactorily solved. For this Spring there seems to be as much chance of difficulties with them, all around, as ever. We hear of Indian troubles from every quarter nearly. They are rampageous, in a limited way, and sometimes not so limited in California, Nevada, Arizona, New-Mexico, Colorado, Nebraska, Minnesota, Montana, Oregon and Utah, and probably will soon be, if