Are there any accounts of a samurai/ronin being in “the wild west” of America?

by AlaskanTieFighter
drylaw

I can't speak to the US but have written about this for colonial Mexico, also part of North America (esp in Part 2): https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/b4ti11/comment/eja6x9m

The very short takeaway is that there was a larger, esp. enslaved Asian population in Mexico, but only very few cases of samurai there are known.