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| 1 | 1865 | - 1865—1869: POLITICAL: Andrew Johnson, President.Vice President under Abraham Lincoln, sworn in as president upon Lincoln's death.
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| 2 | 1868 | - 1868—1868: HISTORY: .J P Knight invents traffic lights.
- 1868—1868: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche bands that signed treaty moved to Fort Cobb only to leave again in summer to return home to the Plains..
- 1868—1868: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche raids target Texas and Kansas, all tribes are then ordered to Oklahoma..
- 1868—1868: NATIVE AMERICAN: Custer's Last Stand.George Armstong Custer and the 7th Cavalry attacks a southern Cheyenne village on the Washita in November.
- 1868—1868: NATIVE AMERICAN: Major Andrew Evans attacks a Comanche village at Soldiers Spring on Christmas Day..
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| 3 | 1869 | - 1869—1869: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche-Kiowa agency was relocated to Fort Sill and the Cheyenne-Arapaho agency to Darlington..
- 1869—1877: POLITICAL: Ulysses Grant, President .
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| 4 | 1870 | - 1870—1870: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche population estimated at 8,000..
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| 5 | 1871 | - 1871—1871: NATIVE AMERICAN: KIOWA RAIDS GENERAL WILLIAM SHERMAN's WAGON TRAIN.AND ALMOST KILLS THE SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE AMERICAN ARMY.A raid led by Quanah Parker stole 70 horses from the army at Rock Station.
- 1871—1871: NATIVE AMERICAN: Kiowa raids General William Shermans wagon train and almost kills the Supreme Commander of the American Army..
- 1871—1871: NATIVE AMERICAN: A raid led by Quanah Parker stole 70 horses from the army at Rock Station..
- 1871—1871: NATIVE AMERICAN: General Randell Mackenzie and his black buffalo soldiers fight Quanah for 2 years on the Plains..
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| 6 | 1872 | - 1872—1872: HISTORY: A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog..
- 1872—1872: NATIVE AMERICAN: Combined Comanche and Kiowa raids in Texas kills 20 in Texas, at same time Texans steal 1,900 + horses from tribes at Ft. Sill Ok..
- 1872—1872: NATIVE AMERICAN: Mackenzie attacks a Comanche Village at McClellan Creek he takes 130 women and children hostage and imprisons them at Ft. Concho. 200 or more lodges destroyed..
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| 7 | 1873 | - 1873—1873: EPEDEMIC: Smallpox, Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet & Yellow Fever.Memphis, TN; PA; NY; Boston, MA; New Orleans, LA; Baltimore, MD; Washington, DC.
- 1873—1873: NATIVE AMERICAN: GENERAL RANDALL MACKENZIE AND HIS BLACK BUFFALO SOLDIERS FIGHT THE KWAHADA BAND OF COMANCHES FOR 2 YEARS ON THE PLAINS..
- 1873—1873: HISTORY: .Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
- 1873—1873: NATIVE AMERICAN: Comanche hostages released and forced to go to Ft. Sill..
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| 8 | 1874 | - 1874—1874: HISTORY: .American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
- 1874—1874: NATIVE AMERICAN: Cheyenne hunters report that there are dead buffalo all over the Plains.Violence erupted at Wichita and Darlington Agencies and put down by federal troops.
- 1874—1874: NATIVE AMERICAN: Large Groups of Cheyennes leave the reservation for the Plains..
- 1874—1874: NATIVE AMERICAN: A large Comanche-Cheyenne war party attacked 23 buffalo hunters camped in the Texas Panhandle at the site of Carson's 1864 battle at Adobe Walls..
- 1874—1874: WAR: Red River War or Buffalo War begins, this is the last Great Indian War in the Plains..
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| 9 | 1875 | - 1875—1875: EPEDEMIC: Influenza - North American & Europe.
- 1875—1875: NATIVE AMERICAN: General Miles attacks a group of Cheyenne near McClellan Creek..
- 1875—1875: NATIVE AMERICAN: General Mackenzie attacks and burns 5 Comanche villages in Palo Duro Canyon and massacres women and children and destroys over 1400 Comanche horses..
- 1875—1875: NATIVE AMERICAN: Winter time brings starvation to the Indians and they start to return to the reservation after relentless pursuit by Federal Troops..
- 1875—1875: NATIVE AMERICAN: In April 200 Kwahada, who had never submitted, surrendered at Fort Sill.. In June the last 400 Kwahada with Quanah Parker surrendered.
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1868 - Bef 1876 (7 years)
