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American West - Timeline
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- 1Early 1800sMountain Men trapping beavers
- 21820Texas Rangers set up to uphold the law
- 31830Church of the Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (the Mormons) founded
- 41840Estimated 13 million buffalo on the Plains
- 51840sFirst pioneers went West
- 61846The Mormons leave Nauvoo
- 71847Mormons arrive at the Great Salt Lake and build Salt Lake City
- 81848Gold discovered in California
- 91849The first miners arrive in California - the '49ers
- 101850Pinkerton Detective Agency set up to prevent stagecoach robberies
- 111851The First Fort Laramie Treaty signed
- 121860sHomesteaders begin settling on the Plains
- 131862Little Crow's War
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Homestead Act - 141861-65American Civil War
- 151862-69Railroad constructed
- 161864Sand Creek Massacre
- 171865-68Red Cloud's War
- 181866Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving establish the Goodnight-Loving trail
- 191867Joseph McCoy creates cowtown of Abilene
- 201868The Second Fort Laramie Treaty signed
- 211870sHunters begin killing buffalo / Ranchers begin to move cattle onto Plains
- 221873Timber and Culture Act
- 231874Barbed ware invented by Joseph Glidden
- 241876-77Great Sioux War
- 251876Battle of Little Bighorn / US adopts Total Warfare against Indians after defeat
- 261883Bad drought killed many cattle
- 271885Just 200 buffalo left
- 281886Bad winter killed thousands of cattle
- 291890Wovoka starts the Ghost Dance movement
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Massacre at Wounded Knee - 301892Johnson County War
- 311887Lawes General Allotment Act
- 321845Manifest Destiny put up as an idea for the first time
- 331880sWind pumps and machinery widely used on the plains
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- A timeline of all the major events during the years 1840-95 during the development of the American West.
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- Created by thomasm · Jun 7, 2015
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