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1873 7/3/1873 A colored men's convention meets in Brenham in order to draft a Civil Rights bill to guarantee equal access to all public accommodations.
1873 9/16/1873 R. L. More is born in Decatur, Texas - He will amass the world's largest private collection of bird eggs in his lifetime.
1874 1/11/1874 Gail Borden dies; during his life he had published newspapers during the Texas Revolution, surveyed the wilderness, and condensed milk.
1874 1/17/1874 Armed Democrats seized Texas government from carpetbagger rule, which ends radical reconstruction in Texas.
1874 2/20/1874 Former slave in North Carolina, Walter Moses Burton, wins seat in Texas Senate, and serves for seven years.
1874 4/5/1874 Houston business tycoon Jesse Jones is born in Robertson County, Tennessee. He would become U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 1940-1945.
1874 5/2/1874 John B. Jones is commissioned a Major, and appointed to lead the Frontier Battalion of the Texas Rangers.
1874 6/27/1874 The Indians lose the second battle of Adobe Walls - about 30 hunters vs. ~700 warriors.
1874 8/30/1874 The first fight of the Red River Indian War takes place in Palo Duro Canyon, marking the end of free-roaming Indians on the southern Great Plains.
1874 9/12/1874 The "Buffalo Wallow Fight" begins in Hemphill County; six men hold off over 100 Indians for three days. Army scout Billy Dixon received the Medal of Honor for gallantry there.
1874 9/14/1874 The Sixth Cavalry arrives just in time to scare off attacking Indians in "the Battle of Lyman's Wagon Train".
1874 9/28/1874 Gen. Ranald MacKenzie led his men in one of the last major Indian battles in Texas, "The Battle of Palo Duro Canyon," with the Indians routed and 2,000 horses captured.
1874 11/24/1874 Joseph F. Glidden invents and patents barbed wire, and by his death in 1906, was one of the richest men in America.
1874 12/26/1874 Joe McComb holds first commercial buffalo hunt at Fort Griffin.
1875 1/23/1875 Molly Armstrong, the first woman optometrist in Texas, is born in Bell County.
1875 4/19/1875 Kiowa Chief White Horse surrenders at Fort Sill.
1875 6/13/1875 Miriam "Ma" Ferguson is born in Bell County; she later becomes Texas' First Lady, and then Governor twice.
1875 6/14/1875 Although Jefferson Davis is invited to serve as the first president of Texas A & M, he declines.
1875 9/6/1875 Constitutional convention meets to eliminate Constitution of 1869 and establish Constitution of 1876, the sixth constitution since independence from Mexico.
1875 9/16/1875 A hurricane destroys the city of Indianola, with 200 of its inhabitants dying from the storm.
1876 2/15/1876 The citizens of Texas adopt the Texas Constitution of 1876, and the Republic of Texas is officially declared at an end, with Texas government being formally installed in Austin.
1876 6/7/1876 Construction begins on Fort Sam Houston at San Antonio.
1876 6/18/1876 Charles Goodnight and John Adair together create the A J Ranch.
1876 6/22/1876 Santa Anna dies of old age in Mexico City.
1876 6/29/1876 General John Lapham Bullis, with a force of 100 Seminole Scouts, chases the hostile Lipan Indians across the Rio Grande into Mexico.
1876 7/19/1876 The Texas and Pacific Railroad becomes the first railroad to reach Fort Worth.