1864 Sand Creek Massacre 1865 Slavery abolished in the 1866 Goodnight & Loving reach USA Fort Sumner with a herd of cattle 1866 Fetterman’s Trap 1866 – 68 Red Cloud’s War 1867 Abilene becomes the first cow town 1868 The ‘Winter Campaign’ 1868 President Grant’s ‘Peace 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty (2) Policy’ 1869 First Transcontinental 1870 Cattle ranching begins on the 1873 Timber Culture Act Railroad completed Plains, leading to the ‘Open Range’ 1874 Barbed wire begins to be 1874 Wind-powered pump 1874 Custer leads expedition to mass-produced introduced the Black Hills
1864 Sand Creek Massacre 1865 Slavery abolished in the USA 1866 Goodnight & Loving reach Fort Sumner with a herd of cattle 1866 Fetterman’s Trap 1866 – 68 Red Cloud’s War 1867 Abilene becomes the first cow town 1868 The ‘Winter Campaign’ 1868 President Grant’s ‘Peace Policy’ 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty (2) 1869 First Transcontinental Railroad completed 1870 Cattle ranching begins on the Plains, leading to the ‘Open Range’ 1873 Timber Culture Act 1874 Barbed wire begins to be mass-produced 1874 Wind-powered pump introduced 1874 Custer leads expedition to the Black Hills
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