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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1869 | - 1869—1877: POLITICAL: Ulysses Grant, President .
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| 2 | 1872 | - 1872—1872: HISTORY: A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog..
- 1872—1872: NATIVE AMERICAN: Combined Comanche and Kiowa raids in Texas kills 20 in Texas, at same time Texans steal 1,900 + horses from tribes at Ft. Sill Ok..
- 1872—1872: NATIVE AMERICAN: Mackenzie attacks a Comanche Village at McClellan Creek he takes 130 women and children hostage and imprisons them at Ft. Concho. 200 or more lodges destroyed..
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| 3 | 1873 | - 1873—1873: EPEDEMIC: Smallpox, Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet & Yellow Fever.Memphis, TN; PA; NY; Boston, MA; New Orleans, LA; Baltimore, MD; Washington, DC.
- 1873—1873: NATIVE AMERICAN: GENERAL RANDALL MACKENZIE AND HIS BLACK BUFFALO SOLDIERS FIGHT THE KWAHADA BAND OF COMANCHES FOR 2 YEARS ON THE PLAINS..
- 1873—1873: HISTORY: .Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
- 1873—1873: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche hostages released and forced to go to Ft. Sill..
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| 4 | 1874 | - 1874—1874: HISTORY: .American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
- 1874—1874: NATIVE AMERICAN: Cheyenne hunters report that there are dead buffalo all over the Plains.Violence erupted at Wichita and Darlington Agencies and put down by federal troops.
- 1874—1874: NATIVE AMERICAN: Large Groups of Cheyennes leave the reservation for the Plains..
- 1874—1874: NATIVE AMERICAN: A large Comanche-Cheyenne war party attacked 23 buffalo hunters camped in the Texas Panhandle at the site of Carson's 1864 battle at Adobe Walls..
- 1874—1874: WAR: Red River War or Buffalo War begins, this is the last Great Indian War in the Plains..
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1872 - 1874 (2 years)
