From 1892, an example of an especially vicious lynching, and of the racist press that helped make it possible. Afterward, evidence came to light showing that Mrs. Jewell had in fact seduced the victim.

Fresno Weekly Republican / February 26, 1892

ST LOUIS, February 20. — The Republic’s special from Texarkana, Ark., says: Ed Coy, the negro fiend who last Saturday fiendishly assaulted Mrs. Henry Jewell, the wife of a respectable farmer living a few miles outside the city, this afternoon answered for his awful crime, being burned at the stake in the presence of 6000

Iron White Man of the Sioux Nation, probably a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Circa 1900 photograph by Gertrude Kasebier.

Galveston Daily News / September 8, 1875

At Fort Smith, Arkansas, on the 3d instant, six men were hung on one gallows. Among them were two who had made their homes in Texas.

Daniel H. Evans was a handsome young man of twenty, a native of Tennessee, and had respectable connections in Missouri, Tennessee and Texas. He murdered a man named Seabolt in November last near Eufaula, Creek Nation, and Evans admitted he associated with outlaws, and in connection with two others robbed a

Joe Black Fox, a Sioux Indian from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Circa 1900 photograph by Gertrude Kasebier.