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Historical Events for the Year 1874. 16th February » Dollar coin (United States) or Silver Dollar becomes legal US tender. 21st February » The 'Oakland Tribune known as Oakland Daily Tribune' publishes its first edition. 28th February » One of the longest cases ever heard in an English court ends when the defendant is convicted of perjury ...
Major Events. Jan 1 New York City annexes the Bronx. Jan 13 Battle between jobless and police in NYC leaves 100s injured. Jan 13 US troops land in Honolulu to protect the king. Jan 14 I. D. Shadd elected Speaker of lower house of Mississippi legislature.
April 10, 1874 – The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska. May 9, 1874 – The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes. May 16, 1874 – A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
Mar 1, 2016 · They work as if sent to destroy’. Late one July morning in 1874, 12-year-old farm girl Lillie Marcks watched the sunlight dim and a peculiar darkness sweep over the Kansas sky. A whirring, rasping sound followed, and there appeared, as she later recalled, “a moving gray-green screen between the sun and earth.”.
- Chuck Lyons
- Mexican-American War
- South Plains Tribes
- Buffalo Hunters
- The Medicine Lodge Treaty
- Enabling Treaty Violations
- Native American Frustrations
- Conclusion
Samuel Houston became the second president of independent Texas and attempted to affect territorial compromises with the Plains tribes. Relative peace ensued until his successor, Mirabeau Lamar, assumed the office in 1839, whereupon he sought “‘an exterminating war upon their [South Plains tribes] warriors; which will admit no compromise and have n...
The tribes that composed the South Plains Indians were the Kiowa, Comanche, Cheyenne, and Arapaho. Each of these groups migrated to the region out of necessity. The Comanche migrated south from the North Plains region of the United States near the onset of the 18th century. Following soon after was the Kiowa tribe. Before the arrival of the Kiowa, ...
In 1870, a new process was developed for tanning hides, thereby making hunting a lucrative endeavor. It was in that year that Josiah Wright Mooar departed his New England home in pursuit of converting buffalo hunting into a lucrative business. Coinciding with the new tanning process was the increased interest in using buffalo hides as sleigh blanke...
Medicine Lodge Creek, Kansas was the site of a meeting between the Department of Indian Affairs and several thousand Native Americans. The week of meetings that took place from October 21-28, 1867 was an attempt at appeasement on the part of the government. Treaties made that week between the Kiowa-Comanche association and the Cheyenne-Arapaho alli...
Hunting buffalo had become a wildly popular means by which to make a living and the number of hunters pouring into Dodge City grew at an exponential rate. Renowned hunter William “Billy” Dixon wrote that “During the fall and winter of 1872 and 1873, there were more hunters in the country than ever before…I feel safe in saying that 75,000 buffaloes ...
By the early part of 1874, the majority of South Plains Indians had resigned themselves to the reality that due to the military power of the federal government they had no choice but to concede to the demands white Americans. Chiefs arrived with their tribes at the designated reservations as they were promised protection and rations. The government...
The Red River War was a series of engagements fought between the United States Army and the war parties of the Kiowa, Comanche, Arapaho, and Cheyenne tribes. By enabling white buffalo hunters to breach the Medicine Lodge Treaty, the military leaders fostered the desire for war among the war factions of the tribes. Further, the neglect on the part o...
1874 events in the United States by month (2 C) / 1874 disestablishments in the United States (6 C, 2 P) 1874 establishments in the United States (49 C, 11 P) A. 1874 in Alaska (1 C) C. 1874 crimes in the United States (1 C, 3 P)
Apr 18 David Livingstone, African explorer, buried in Westminster Abbey. Apr 19 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire. Apr 27 White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms. Mar 1874.
