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| Question | Answer |
| Early 1800s | Mountain Men trapping beavers |
| 1820 | Texas Rangers set up to uphold the law |
| 1825 | Initial development of Indian reservations |
| 1830 | Church of the Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (the Mormons) founded |
| 1840 | Estimated 13 million buffalo on the Plains |
| 1840s | First pioneers went West |
| 1844 | Joseph Smith is killed in a jail in Nauvoo |
| 1846 | The Mormons leave Nauvoo |
| 1847 | Mormons arrive at the GSL and build SLC |
| 1848 | Gold discovered in California |
| 1849 | The first miners arrive in California - the '49ers |
| 1850 | Pinkerton Detective Agency set up to prevent stagecoach robberies |
| 1851 | The Fort Laramie Treaty signed |
| 1860s | Homesteaders begin settling on the Plains |
| 1861-62 | Little Crow's War |
| 1862 | Homestead Act |
| 1862-64 | American Civil War |
| 1862-69 | Railroad constructed |
| 1864 | Sand Creek massacre |
| 1865-68 | Red Cloud's War |
| 1866 | Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving establish the Goodnight-Loving trail |
| 1867 | Joseph McCoy creates cowtown of Abilene |
| 1868 | The Second Fort Laramie Treaty signed |
| 1870s | Hunters begin killing buffalo / Ranchers begin to move cattle onto Plains |
| 1873 | Timber and Culture Act |
| 1874 | Barbed ware invented |
| 1876-77 | Great Sioux War |
| 1876 | Battle of Little Bighorn / US adopts Total Warfare against Indians after defeat |
| 1883 | Bad drought killed many cattle |
| 1885 | Just 200 buffalo left |
| 1886-87 | Bad winter killed thousands of buffalo |
| 1889 | Wovoka starts the Ghost Dance movement |
| 1890 | Massacre at Wounded Knee |
| 1892 | Johnson County War |
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