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American West timeline
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- 1Early 1800sMountain Men trapping beavers
- 21820Texas Rangers set up to uphold the law
- 31825Initial development of Indian reservations
- 41830Church of the Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (the Mormons) founded
- 51840Estimated 13 million buffalo on the Plains
- 61840sFirst pioneers went West
- 71844Joseph Smith is killed in a jail in Nauvoo
- 81846The Mormons leave Nauvoo
- 91847Mormons arrive at the GSL and build SLC
- 101848Gold discovered in California
- 111849The first miners arrive in California - the '49ers
- 121850Pinkerton Detective Agency set up to prevent stagecoach robberies
- 131851The Fort Laramie Treaty signed
- 141860sHomesteaders begin settling on the Plains
- 151861-62Little Crow's War
- 161862Homestead Act
- 171862-64American Civil War
- 181862-69Railroad constructed
- 191864Sand Creek massacre
- 201865-68Red Cloud's War
- 211866Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving establish the Goodnight-Loving trail
- 221867Joseph McCoy creates cowtown of Abilene
- 231868The Second Fort Laramie Treaty signed
- 241870sHunters begin killing buffalo / Ranchers begin to move cattle onto Plains
- 251873Timber and Culture Act
- 261874Barbed ware invented
- 271876-77Great Sioux War
- 281876Battle of Little Bighorn / US adopts Total Warfare against Indians after defeat
- 291883Bad drought killed many cattle
- 301885Just 200 buffalo left
- 311886-87Bad winter killed thousands of buffalo
- 321889Wovoka starts the Ghost Dance movement
- 331890Massacre at Wounded Knee
- 341892Johnson County War
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- A timeline of all the major events during the years 1845-90 during the development of the American West.
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