Friday, June 23, 1876. Camp on the Rosebud.

The 7th Cavalry's camp on this day in 1876: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mtalplacido/53876295032/in/photostream/

President Grant created a reservation in California, the largest in that state.

Executive Order—Creating the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation

June 23, 1876

EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 23, 1876.

It is hereby ordered that the south and west boundaries and that portion of the north boundary west of Trinity River surveyed, in 1875, by C. T. Bissel, and the courses and distances of the east boundary, and that portion of the north boundary east of Trinity River reported but not surveyed by him, viz: “Beginning at the southeast corner of the reservation at a post set in mound of rocks, marked ‘H. V. R., No. 3'; thence south 17½ degrees west, 905.15 chains, to southeast corner or reservation; thence south 72½ degrees west, 480 chains, to the mouth of Trinity River,” be, and hereby are, declared to be the exterior boundaries of Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation, and the land embraced therein, an area of 89,572.43 acres, be, and hereby is, withdrawn from public sale, and set apart for Indian purposes, as one of the Indian reservations authorized to be set apart, in California, by act of Congress approved April 8, 1864. (13 Stats., p. 39.)

U. S. GRANT

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Thursday, June 22, 1876. 7th Cavalry leaves the Yellowstone.

Labels: 1870s, 1876, Alfred Terry, Battle of Little Big Horn, Big Horn Expedition, cavalry, George A. Custer, George Crook, Infantry, John Gibbon, Marcus Reno, Montana, Wyoming, Yellowstone Expedition, Yellowtone River

Wednesday, June 21, 1876. Far West.

Brig Gen. Alfred Terry held a conference of war aboard the steamboat the Far West.  They determined to use a pincer strategy and divide their forces in order to locate and subdue the Sioux and Cheyenne in the field, with one column under Lt. Col. George A. Custer and another under Terry.

Custer was to go up Rosebud Creek to track a village known to be somewhere in the area.  It was not known that George Crook had just encountered the same native band, and had been turned back.

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Sunday, June 18, 1876. Montenegrin-Ottoman War commences.

Labels: 1870s, 1876, Herzegovina, Montenegrin–Ottoman War, Ottoman Empire, Serbia

Saturday, June 17, 1876. Battle of the Rosebud Battlefield, Montana.

Today In Wyoming's History: Battle of the Rosebud Battlefield, Montana.: The Battle of the Rosebud was an important June 1876 battle that came, on June 17, just days prior to the Battle of the Little Big Horn.  Fo...

Battle of the Rosebud Battlefield, Montana.

The Battle of the Rosebud was an important June 1876 battle that came, on June 17, just days prior to the Battle of the Little Big Horn.  Fought by the same Native American combatants, who crossed from their Little Big Horn encampment to counter 993 cavalrymen and mule mounted infantrymen who had marched north from Ft. Fetterman, Wyoming, at the same time troops under Gen. Terry, including Custer's command, were proceeding west from Ft. Abraham Lincoln.  Crook's command included, like Terry's, Crow scouts, and he additionally was augmented soon after leaving Ft. Fetterman by Shoshoni combatants.

The battlefield today is nearly untouched.

Called the Battle Where the Sister Saved Her Brother, or the Battle Where the Girl Saved Her Brother, like Little Big Horn, it was a Sioux and Arapaho victory, although it did not turn into an outright disaster like Little Big Horn. Caught in a valley and attacked, rather than attacking into a valley like Custer, the Army took some ground and held its positions, and then withdrew.  Crook was effectively knocked out of action for the rest of the year and retreated into the Big Horn mountains in Wyoming.

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Wednesday, June 14, 1876. The Grand Old Party convenes.

Labels: 1870s, 1876, 1876 Election, James G. Blaine, Republican Party, Rutherford B. Hayes, U.S. Grant

Monday, June 5, 1876. Soldiers falling into camp.

Sitting Bull had a vision of "soldiers falling into his camp like grasshoppers from the sky" during a Sun Dance on Rosebud Creek, Montana.

Sweet, yellow bananas were introduced in the United States at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. They were foil wrapped and sold for .10.

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Sunday, June 4, 1876. Fast train.

Labels: 1870s, 1876, Railroads, Transportation, United States