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Showing posts with label 1876. Show all posts
Saturday, March 14, 2026
Tuesday, March 14, 1876. The draft of the Colorado Constitution.
Colorado's constitutional convention wrapped up, having produced a draft of the foundational document which Colorado still uses.
Thursday, March 12, 2026
Sunday, March 12, 1876. London meat shower.
And, just a few days after it happened in Kentucky, a meat shower happened over London.
Weird.
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Friday, March 10, 1876, "Mr. Watson, come here—I want to see you".
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Friday, March 10, 1876, "Mr. Watson, come here—I want to see you".
Alexander Graham Bell successfully transmitted the first intelligible human speech over a telephone system, saying, "Mr. Watson, come here—I want to see you".
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March 10, 1876: Alexander Graham Bell Invents the Telephone
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Wednesday, March 8, 1876. Establishing the Crow Reservation.
Sunday, March 8, 2026
Wednesday, March 8, 1876. Establishing the Crow Reservation.
March 8, 1876
Executive Mansion
By an Executive order dated October 20, 1875, the following-described tract of country, situated in Montana Territory, was withdrawn from public sale and set apart for the use of the Crow tribe of Indians in said Territory to be added to their reservation, viz: “Commencing at a point in the mid-channel of the Yellowstone River, where the one hundred and seventh degree of west longitude crosses the said river; thence up said mid-channel of the Yellowstone to the mouth of Big Timber Creek; thence up said creek 20 miles, if the said creek can be followed that distance; it not, then in the same direction continued from the source thereof to a point 20 miles from the mouth of said creek; thence eastwardly along a line parallel to the Yellowstone—no point of which shall be less than 20 miles from the river—to the one hundred and seventh degree west longitude; thence south to the place of beginning.” The said Executive order of October 20, 1875, above noted, is hereby revoked, and the tract of land therein described is again restored to the public domain.
U. S. Grant
Note how the White House was called the "Executive Mansion".
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Tuesday, March 7, 1876. Bell patents the telephone.
Saturday, March 7, 2026
Tuesday, March 7, 1876. Bell patents the telephone.
Scottish born Alexander Graham Bell, age 29, patented the telephone.
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Friday, March 3, 1876. Redistributing horses.
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Friday, March 3, 1876. Redistributing horses.
Today In Wyoming's History: March 3: 1876 A nighttime raid takes horses and cattle from Crook's Powder River Expedition. The cattle are recovered, but are driven to Ft. Fetterman.
The mysterious Kentucky Meat Shower, in which chunks of meat, apparently, rained down in Bath County, Kentucky, occurred.
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Monday, March 2, 2026
Thursday, March 2, 1876. Belknap resigns.
Secretary of War William Belknap resigned just before he was about to be impeached for corruption.
Belknap was a prewar politician and lawyer who had served as a Union General during and after the Civil War.
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Wednesday, March 1, 1876. The Big Horn Expedition commences.
Labels: 1870s, 1876, Army, Big Horn Expedition, Frontier Wyoming, George Cook, Great Sioux War, The Frontier West
Sunday, March 1, 2026
Wednesday, March 1, 1876. The Big Horn Expedition commences.
Today In Wyoming's History: March 1: Gen. George Crook left Ft. Fetterman bound for the Powder River basis with a command that was to search for Sioux who were off the Reservation.
Ft. Fetterman had the reputation of being one of the worst forts to be stationed at in the Frontier West, and it had the highest insanity rate of any U.S. military post at the time.
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Thursday, February 26, 2026
Saturday, February 26, 1876. The Japan Korea Treaty of Amity.
Japan and Korean signed the Japan Korea Treaty of Amity, formally ending Korea's status as a tributary state of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, but giving Japan special rights in an independent Korea.
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Monday, February 15, 1876. Texas adopts its current constitution.
Sunday, February 15, 2026
Monday, February 15, 1876. Texas adopts its current constitution.
Texas adopted its current state constitution.
FWIW, most states change constitutions fairly frequently.
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Thursday, February 10, 1876. Terry ordered to take action against Sioux.
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Thursday, February 10, 1876. Terry ordered to take action against Sioux.
Today In Wyoming's History: February 10: 1876 Gen. Terry ordered to take action against Sioux and Cheyenne who remained off their reservations.
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Saturday, February 7, 2026
Monday, February 7, 1876. Colorado women get to vote.
The Territory of Colorado granted women the full franchise. Wyoming had done the same in 1869.
It didn't make the front page of this Denver newspaper, but then, this was probably a morning addition.
Saturday, February 5, 1876. Doc Holliday arrives in Cheyenne.
Labels: 1870s, 1876, 1880s, 1887, Catholic, Frontier Wyoming, Personalities, religion, South Dakota (Deadwood), The Frontier West, Wyoming, Wyoming (Cheyenne)
Thursday, February 5, 2026
Saturday, February 5, 1876. Doc Holliday arrives in Cheyenne.
John Henry "Doc" Holliday arrived in Cheyenne, Wyoming, following news of gold having been found in the territory. He went to work there as a faro dealer in the Bella Union Saloon which was owned by Thomas Miller, a partner of John A. Babb for whom he'd been similarly employed in Denver.
Cheyenne Wyoming in 1876.
The Bella Union in Cheyenne was located in what is now the parking lot for the Hacienda restaurant in Cheyenne, so the building is no longer there. The bar itself did not have a long presence in Cheyenne, as in the fall of 1876 the owner moved the institution to Deadwood, South Dakota, and Holliday went with it. It was following the regional gold rush.
Holliday was a dentist by trade, but he practiced only a year before heading West after being diagnosed with tuberculosis. He briefly resumed dentistry after moving to Dallas, but only very briefly, having to give it up due to the disease, after which he turned to gambling for a livelihood. The sometimes illegal occupation was one that required carrying a sidearm.
Wyatt Earp wrote of Holliday:
I found him a loyal friend and good company. He was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit; a long, lean blonde fellow nearly dead with consumption and at the same time the most skillful gambler and nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun I ever knew.
Bat Masterson, who did not like him, wrote:
While he never did anything to entitle him to a Statue in the Hall of Fame, Doc Holliday was nevertheless a most picturesque character on the western border in those days when the pistol instead of law determined issues.... Holliday had a mean disposition and an ungovernable temper, and under the influence of liquor was a most dangerous man…. Physically, Doc Holliday was a weakling who could not have whipped a healthy fifteen-year-old boy in a go-as-you-please fistfight.
Holliday was a curious figure in various ways, and there have been various efforts to pin down his personality, probably not all successfully. A convert from Presbyterianism to Methodism, he converted to Catholicism on his deathbed and seems to have carried a torch for a cousin who became a nun, Sister Mary Melanie Holliday, with some accounts holding that in spite of his association with Big Nose Kate he pined for her his entire life.
He died in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, in 1887.
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Thursday, February 3, 1876. Stage Line.
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Thursday, February 3, 1876. Stage Line.
Today In Wyoming's History: February 3: 1876 First stage run from Cheyenne to the Black Hills leaves Cheyenne. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
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Monday, February 2, 2026
Wednesday, February 2, 1876. The National League formed.
The National League was founded on this date.
It was a successor to the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (NAPBBP or National Association (NA)). The original teams were
- Chicago, the "Chicago White Stockings", now the Chicago Cubs.
- Philadelphia, the Athletic Club of Philadelphia which were expelled after the 1876 season.
- Boston, the "Boston Red Stockings", which became the Boston Braves, then the Milwaukee Braves, now the Atlanta Braves.
- Hartford, the "Hartford Dark Blues".
- New York, the Mutual Club of New York which was expelled after the 1876 season.
- St. Louis, the "St. Louis Brown Stockings", which folded after the 1877 season.
- Cincinnati, the "Cincinnati Reds", which disbanded after the 1879 season.
- Louisville, the "Louisville Grays"), a new franchise, which folded after the 1877 season.
Well, the NL is still around.
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Tuesday, February 1, 1876. The War Department takes over.
Sunday, February 1, 2026
Tuesday, February 1, 1876. The War Department takes over.
The Secretary of the Interior relinquished jurisdiction over all Plains Indians not on reservations to the War Department.
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Monday, January 31, 1876. Expiration of ultimatum.
Saturday, January 31, 2026
Monday, January 31, 1876. Expiration of ultimatum.
Today In Wyoming's History: January 31: 1876 The U.S. government issued an order that all Indians on the northern plains must return to their agencies. This was the expiration date for that ultimatum.
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Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Friday, January 28, 1876. Executive Order—Restoring Malheur Indian Reservation to Public Domain.
I haven't followed prior Presidents on Executive Orders, but Grant seemed to issue a lot of them on the topic of Reservations.
Executive Order—Restoring Malheur Indian Reservation to Public Domain
January 28, 1876
Executive Mansion, January 28, 1876.
It is hereby ordered that the tract of country in Oregon lying within the following-described boundaries, viz: Beginning at a point on the right bank of the Malheur River where the range line between ranges 38 and 39 east of the Willamette meridian intersects the same; thence north on said range line to a point due east of the summit of Castle Rock; thence due west to the summit of Castle Rock; thence in a northwesterly direction to Strawberry Butte; thence to Soda Spring, on the Canyon City and Camp Harney road; thence down Silvies Creek to Malheur Lake; thence due east to the right bank of the South Fork of Malheur River; thence down said right bank of the South Fork to the Malheur River; thence down the right bank of the Malheur River to the place of beginning, except such lands within these limits as have passed or may pass to The Dalles Military Road on the north, and the Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain Military Road on the south, be, and the same is hereby, withdrawn from sale and set apart for the use and occupancy of the Piute and Snake Indians, to be Known as the Malheur Indian Reservation; and that portion of country set apart by Executive order of May 15, 1875, not embraced in the limits of the above-described tract of country, is hereby restored to the public domain.
U. S. Grant.
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Wednesday, January 26, 1876. Ft. Pease attacked.
Labels: 1870s, 1876, Frontier Montana, Indian Wars, Montana, Sioux, Sitting Bull (Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake)
Monday, January 26, 2026
Wednesday, January 26, 1876. Ft. Pease attacked.
Today In Wyoming's History: January 26: 1876 Sioux under Sitting Bull attacked the civilian post at Ft. Pease, Montana.
The post was attacked fairly frequently.
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Monday, January 5, 2026
January 5, 1876, Pokrok západu (Omaha, Neb.).
Remembering that the world as Stephen Miller imagines it never really existed.
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Monday, January 3, 1876. First classes at BYU.
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