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1876 7/30/1876 Elements of the 10th U.S. Cavalry (Buffalo Soldiers) and a band of Lipan Apache Indians clash across the Rio Grande in Mexico.
1876 9/27/1876 Former Civil War Gen. Braxton Bragg drops dead as he crosses a street in Galveston.
1876 10/4/1876 Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College opens its doors, with 40 students and the faculty of six men.
1876 11/7/1876 The Mason County War, or "Hoodoo War" ends with the arrest of two men, masked members of a vigilance committee.
1877 2/2/1877 The first steam train to San Antonio arrives, via the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad.
1877 2/15/1877 The Texas and Southwestern Association is established in Graham, Texas.
1877 6/18/1877 Charles Goodnight and John Adair form the "JA Ranch", the first privately owned cattle ranch in the Palo Duro Canyon of the Panhandle.
1877 9/5/1877 Outlaw Bill Longley sentenced to death, and was hanged at Giddings.
1877 9/10/1877 The first commercial use of the telephone in Texas takes place between the 'Galveston News' and the 'Galveston Western Union' office.
1877 12/20/1877 Sam Bass robs the Fort Worth-Cleburne stagecoach.
1878 3/11/1878 State's first all-African-American public college, Alta Vista Agricultural College, opens, which later became Prairie View A & M.
1878 3/31/1878 World heavyweight boxing champion, Jack Johnson, is born in Galveston.
1878 7/19/1878 Sam Bass is wounded during bank robbery in Round Rock, dying a few days later from his wounds.
1878 7/21/1878 Bandit Sam Bass dies on his 27th birthday, killed by Texas Rangers at Round Rock.
1878 10/7/1878 Jay Wright Moore [sp. Moor; Mooar], buffalo hunter and trader, kills a rare albino buffalo at Deep Creek near Snyder.
1878 10/11/1878 Kiowa Chief Santana commits suicide by jumping from a prison window.
1878 10/11/1878 Bill Longley, killer of at least 32 people, is hanged at Giddings.
1879 5/31/1879 Fort Griffin, headquarters for buffalo skinners in Shackelford County, is closed.
1879 6/13/1879 Coal is discovered in the bed of Clear Fork River near Fort Griffin.
1879 7/1/1879 Jake Atz is born; later to become the greatest baseball manager in Texas League history.
1879 7/25/1879 Buffalo soldiers from the 10th U.S. Cavalry and the 25th U.S. Infantry skirmish near Sulphur Springs.
1879 12/11/1879 Fort Worth's leading citizen Amon Carter is born in Crafton, Texas.
1880 5/22/1880 The scarcity of buffalo in the area due to over-hunting has forced the new Tannery at Fort Griffin to close in 1880 after only one season of operation.
1880 6/5/1880 Belle Reed (Belle Starr) marries Sam Starr in the Cherokee Nation.
1880 6/28/1880 Texas Jack Omohundro dies of pneumonia and is buried in Leadville, Colorado.
1880 7/24/1880 Town of Kyle is founded in Hays County, near San Marcos, where it serves as divider between farming to the east, and ranching to the west.
1880 8/11/1880 U.S. soldiers and Texas Rangers begin pursuit of Victorio's band of Apaches at Rattlesnake Springs, near Fort Quitman, chasing them into Mexico.
1880 9/13/1880 Carlysle Raht, who fights against Pancho Villa, authors six books, and later works on the atom bomb, is born in Gainesville.