Created by writer Don Cameron and penciler Carmine Infantino, he is a Sioux who is the sheriff of the small Western town of Elkhorn, where he is known as a master detective.

Since then, Smith has remained a generation legacy, and a historical figure in the DC Universe, meeting other heroes in their occasional time travel stories.

Much of the art during the Detective period was by Leonard Starr, and when Smith found a home in Western Comics, his original illustrator Infantino returned.

[5] Ohiyesa Smith appears in the Justice League Unlimited episode "The Once and Future Thing Part One: Weird Western Tales", voiced by Jonathan Joss.

After Tobias Manning runs him out of town using Chronos's future technology, Smith joins forces with Bat Lash, El Diablo, Jonah Hex, and a time-traveling Green Lantern, Wonder Woman and Batman to defeat him.