Wild, Wild West By ToTheBatmobile 1795 Peace Commisions Period: 1795 to 1893 Old West Timeline 1850 White Settlement in Southwest 1860 The Grange 1862 Homestead Act 1864 Sand Creek Massacre 1865 Railroads Start to Boom 1873 Timber Culture Act 1873 Joseph Glidden Invents Barbed Wire 1876 Sioux War 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn D 1877 Nez Perce Flees To Canada 1878 Timber and Stone Act 1880 "Americanizing" Natives Policies 1881 A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson 1886 Chiricahua Geronimo Captured 1887 Dawes Act 1889 Oklahoma Land Rush 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre 1890 Ghost Dance Religion 1893 Turner Thesis by Frederick Jackson Turner