One thing you might get a "kick" out of is a silent film starring Stan
Laurel (later part of the comedy team he British and Oliver Hardy a
"southern gentleman") who received a lifetime Screen Actors Guild Life
Achievement Award in 1963, is "The Soilers" in which he takes on a
corrupt sheriff in the gold-rush town (perhaps the first portrayal in
film of a "gay" gentleman, who offers some comic relief to the long
drawn out fistfight between Stan and the sheriff). Speaking of which,
corruption that is, there's some stories of "Soapy" Smith running
rackets in Colorado before hitting Skagway, where its also reported
the U.S. fired on the natives with a Gatling gun from a ship couple of
decades before Captain Moore's log cabin, the gold rush and Mae West's
visit..

Later of course, Charlie Chaplin would, make the "yardstick" of comedy
"The Gold Rush" .

The tape I have has "Laurel and Hardy, Stan and Ollie: The Soilers",
but Ollie is not in it.

George Myers