Closing the west 1871-1886

  • Red River War

    Summer of 1874. This war led to the end of life for the Southern plain tribe and this even brought a new chapter in Texas history. This involved U.S army launching a compaign. The goal to this was to enforce their relocation. During this time westward bound settlers came into conflict with nomadric tribes, this was claming buffalo plains as their homeland. The Indians kept going untill they no longer could. Ending in 1875 this is when Indians were defated loopsing the privliadge to roam Buffalo
  • 1874 Joseph Glidden - Barberd Wire.

    Barbed wire, first know and established in the year of 1867 in the United States. Barbed wire is known as a type of fencing wire. This wire is made with very sharp like edges and points arranged along strands. This wire is mostly used to create fences in an in expensive way and is used atop walls around secured property. Do to the wire clearly being very sharp, it is obvious that if any animal or human try’s passing trough they will suffer a great deal of discomfort and injury .
  • Phillip Sheridian

    Phillip Sheridian
    Phillip Sheridian, apart of Red River War ordered 5 army colums to converge on general area of Texas and upon tributanus of Red River.
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    Phillip Sheridian

    Ordered 5 army colums to converge on general area of Texas and upon tributanus of Red River.
  • General Custer/ Little Big Horn 1876

    General Custer/ Little Big Horn 1876
    In the summer of June 25, 1876 one of the youngest generals in the Union Army named George A. Custer an army officer fought in a battle called “ The Battle of Little Bighorn “ and lost. The Battle was fought along the ridges, steep bluffs, and ravines of the Little Bighorn River in the South Central Montana. The people who fought in the battle were George A. Custer and his men under his command, Captain Frederick, Major Marcus A. Reno, and the Native Americans.
  • The reasoning of fighting Little Big horn 1876.

    The reason they fought was because the George wanted to take over the Native Americans who were living in Dakota and Montana territories who were fighting for their nomadic way of life. The result of the battle was that the Native Americans won and that George Custer lost and none of his men survived. The Significance of the battle for the Native Americans was that they got to keep their land.
  • Carisle Idian school.

    Carisle Idian school.
    The Carlisle Indian School was founded by Richard Henry Pratt. The Situation with this is with them being frustrated by the unsuccessful attempts to “bring in “the most recalcitrant of the hostiles, the United States instituted a plan to incarcerate them. In April, 1875 they rounded the men up and put them in this Indian Institution. Then they started teaching them, but in mid 1879 Richard Pratt started a school called the Carlisle Indian Institution School. The Richard Pratt had to recruit 36.
  • Dry farming/ Oklahoma/ Plain States 1880's

    Dry Farming originated in the nineteenth century to accelerate the plain the production of certain crops notably wheat. It is most widely practiced in the Great Plains area where the rainfall averages between eight to twenty inches a year. Dry farming is an agricultural method that allowed crops to cultivate on the prairie. While there was evidence of the American Indians on the Great Plains and in the Southwest practiced dry farming.
  • Black Hills Gold Rush 1874 - 1877.

    Black Hills Gold Rush 1874 - 1877.
    Vast amounts of rumors were going around in 1974 and everyone seemed to hear about gold in Midwest United State. All of this was in the Dakota area. The first people who came found gold in the streams that broke off bigger gold veins. This type of gold was called “Placer Gold”. Starting in around 1876 more and more people were coming, and searching for unexcavated caves, and just looking in places they though people have not already looked.
  • Chief Joseph Nez Perce 1871 - 1877

    Chief Joseph Nez Perce  1871 - 1877
    Chief Joseph was the leader of the Wallowa Indian tribe, he was also known as Hinmatóowyalahtq̓it. The Indian tribe was normally known as the band of Nez pierce, but because they mostly lived in the Wallowa valley, they were sometimes known as the Wallowa’s. The Nez Pierce, lead by Chief Joseph, was forcefully removed from their ancestral lands in the valley, and moved to an Indian reserve town in Idaho. Chief Joseph is now known as a worldwide peacemaker and humanitarian.
  • 1886- Apache War- Geronimo

    1886- Apache War- Geronimo
    The apache wars consisted of Native Americans in the Mid-West United States, who were often called the apaches, fighting against the Americans. Although Geronimo, the Apache war chief, surrendered in 1886, they remained attacking the Americans until 1908. The Apaches were often raiding other tribes for an economic reason, for food, clothing, weapons, etc. The Americans did not understand the difference between warfare and raiding for economic reasons, so they thought a war was beginning.