Two Cartridges

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Watching it now almost 3 years later. I thought the shotgun guard was in on it seeing as how me missed twice and was not fatally hit.

IMO, Hardie should have ganked the robber when he made any of his several moves, or let the Indians take care of him, but that would have made for a far shorter episode.

In other westerns, they gank the chief and the rest of the Indians flee. I wonder why they didn't try that here.

Ignoring politics doesn't mean politics will ignore you.
-Pericles paraphrased in <100 characters

The fictional date of "Two Cartridges" would have to be in 1875 or else in or after 1877. If Tales of Wells Fargo happened in real history.

Gold was discovered in the Black Hills in 18754 and the gold rush there started late in 1874. And several mining camps sprang up overnight.

So "Two Cartridges", where Deadwood, South Dakota in the Black Hills is an established town, but the Sioux are generally at peace, would have to be either in 1875 or else after the end of the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877.

However, Deadwood was not founded until 1876, and so the date would have to be in or after 1877.

Note that the Sioux Indians were not US citizens but they were US subjects, and so were under the protection of US laws.

The robber stole gold in an act of highway robbery and recklessly angered Sioux Indians by stealing a pony from them to help carry the gold. The attack by Sioux warriors on the robber and Hardie was a direct result of the robber stealing the gold and then stealing the pony from the Sioux. Therefore, a strong case could be made that the robber was guilty of murdering the Sioux who were killed attacking him and Hardie.

Furthermore, by recklessly stealing a pony from a Sioux, the robber was taken actions which could have resulted in a number of Sioux going on the warpath and attacking many more Americans beside the robber and Hardee. Thus the robber would possibly be legally guilty of murdering any other Americans that might have been killed by those angry Sioux, and guilty of the federal crime of treason against the USA by starting a small scale insurrection or civil war by some Sioux warriors.