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Permanent Indian Frontier set up
1834
Oregon Trail opened
1836
Great Emigration on the Oregon trail
1843
Donner Party head West
1846
Mormons travel to the Great Salt lake
1846
Gold discovered in California
1848
California Gold Rush
1849
Fort Laramie Treaty
1851
Indian Appropriations Act
1851
Gold Mines opened in Colorado and Nevada
1859
American Civil War
1861 - 65
Homestead Act
1862
Pacific Railway Act passed and work on transcontinental railway
1864
Slavery abolished in the USA
1865
Goodnight and loving reach Fort Sumner with a herd of cattle
1866
Abilene becomes first cow town
1867
First Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869
Cattle ranching begins on the plains leading to the Open Range
1870
Timber Culture Act
1873
Fort Laramie Treaty (2)
1868
Barbed wire begins to be mass produced
1874
Wind powered water pump introduced
1874
The OK Coral
1881
The Great Sioux War
1876 - 81
The battle of the Little Big Horn
1876
All Plains Indians are settled onto reservations
1885
Dawes Act
1887
Wounded Knee massacre
1890
The US Gov closes Frontier
1890
Severe Winter leads to end of open
1886-87
Johnson County War
1892
Oklahoma Land Rush
1893
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