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1867 1/19/1867 Troop C, 4th U.S. Cavalry, skirmishes with Indians near the Nueces River.
1867 6/22/1867 This is the worst single day of a yellow fever epidemic that sweeps coastal Texas in 1867.
1867 9/23/1867 William Marsh Rice is murdered in New York. He wills his fortune to begin Rice University in Houston.
1867 9/25/1867 Following an attack by Indians, Oliver Loving, the dean of Texas trail drivers, dies.
1868 3/4/1868 Jesse Chisholm, famous trailblazer, dies of food poisoning in Oklahoma.
1868 11/18/1868 Cavalry launches Canadian River Expedition against Indians in the Panhandle area.
1868 11/24/1868 Noted ragtime musician, Scott Joplin, is born in Texarkana.
1869 5/24/1869 24 defendants stand trial in Jefferson Texas Stockade Case.
1869 9/17/1869 Roy Aldrich, who served 32 years, longer as a Texas Ranger than any other man (1915-1947), is born in Quincy, Illinois.
1869 10/16/1869 Adolph D. Topperwein is born in Boerne. He is in the Texas Sports Hall of Fame as the greatest exhibition shooter of his day.
1869 11/21/1869 William Henry "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, who would later become governor of Oklahoma, is born in Toadsuck, Texas.
1870 1/8/1870 Edmund Davis becomes the first Republican governor of Texas.
1870 3/30/1870 As military rule is ended, President Ulysses S. Grant orders the word 'provisional' dropped from the titles of the office holders of Texas.
1870 5/27/1870 First printed reference made to 'Chisholm Trail' in Kansas Daily Commonwealth newspaper.
1870 7/12/1870 The Sixth Cavalry engages the Kiowas in the battle of the Little Wichita; George H. Eldridge receives the Medal of Honor for his gallantry there.
1870 11/15/1870 William Saunders serves a one-hour sentence Huntsville Penitentiary, the shortest sentence on record.
1871 1/2/1871 Boxing promoter "Tex" Rickard is born in Kansas City, Missouri.
1871 1/20/1871 The Galveston Chamber of Commerce opens the doors of Texas' first Public Library.
1871 4/17/1871 The Texas legislature approve a bill organizing Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College - Texas A&M.
1871 5/18/1871 Satanta, Big Tree, and their warriors massacre seven men from a wagon train at Salt Creek, known as the "Warren Wagon Train Raid."
1871 5/30/1871 El Chico restaurant founder Adelaida Cuellor is born in Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
1871 8/31/1871 James Edward ("Gentleman Jim") Ferguson, future Texas governor, is born in Bell County.
1872 2/29/1872 Henry Lindsley is born; he will become mayor of Dallas and the first national commander of the American Legion.
1872 4/20/1872 "The Battle of the North Fork of the Red River" -An Indian battle at Howard's Well leads to the government's cancellation of hunting permits for Indians.
1872 12/8/1872 Victorian era architect Nicholas Clayton comes to Galveston and builds it into a city of beautiful homes.
1872 12/12/1872 John "Texas Jack" Omohundro heads to Chicago to star with Buffalo Bill in his Wild West Show.