Greatest Events of the Wild West
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1876 Battle of Little Big Horn
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1876 Wild Bill Hickock is shot in the back of the head in Deadwood, SD
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1853- Levi Strauss opens his first store for the gold miners in San Fransisco
The birth of blue jeans
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1803-The Louisianna Purchase
This is what started it all
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1848 The California Gold Rush began
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1852-Wells Fargo founded
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1838-Trail of Tears
One of the most tragic and shameful events of our country's history
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1886 Geranimo surrenders
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1876-Battle of Powder River (Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse) starts the Great Sioux War
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1873 The first barbed wire was introduced to farmers
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1863 First claim for land under the Homestead Act made by Daniel Freeman
If you own land, you own your future
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1853-Gadsden Purchase which gives the US part of Arizona and New Mexico
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1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
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1851 Western Union Founded
The greatest strides in communication to this point.
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1850 Pinkerton Detective Agency Begins
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1804 The Lewis and Clark Expidetion begins
The beginning of a whole new world for American and hope for westward expansion
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1890 The Cavalry kills 146 Sioux at the Battle of Wounded Knee
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1882 Jesse James, the famous outlaw is killed by John Ford
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8172 Yellowstone Nat'l Park designated as the first National Park in the USA
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1846-The Donner Party leaves for California
These are among the bravest people in the world
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