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Invention of Dimes Novels by Irwin Beadle
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Begining of Abraham Lincoln's incorporation of the West policy
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End of the Civil War
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Washita massacre
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End of the first transcontinental train line at Promontory Point
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Opening of the first national park at Yellowstone
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Cochise signs a peace treaty with the American Govenrment
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George Custer leads an expedition in indian territory in the Black Hills
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The battle of Little Bighorn is the biggest american defeat against the indians
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Cheyenne indians exodus from Oklohoma to Dakota
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Creation of the Carlisle School for Indians
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Adoption of the Chinese Exclusion Act
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Willima Cody creates Buffalo Bill's Wild West
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Adoption of the Dawes Severalty Act
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Founding of the Boone and Crocket Club by Thoedore Roosevelt
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Census determines that the American frontier has disappeared and the whole country is colonized
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Wounded Knee massacre
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Foundation of the Sierra Club by John Muir
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Frederick Jackson Turner gives a conference on "the Significance of the Frontier in American History"
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The Johnson County War ends
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Invention of the cinematograph
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Theodore Roosevelt becomes president of the United States
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Owen wister publishes The Virginian
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The Great Train Robbery by Edwin S. Porter is the first western and narrative film
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In Old California by D. W. Griffith is the first silent movie filmed in Hollywood
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D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation is the first historical film
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Decision of the United States Supreme court in the case Mutual Film Corp. v. Industrial Commission of Ohio
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The Covered Wagon by James Cruze is the first epic western
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Native-Americans are entitled to citizenship
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The Vanishing american by George Seitz is the firs movie filmed at Monument Valley
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The Jazz Singer by Alan Crosland is the first talking film
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Begining of the writing of the Hays Code or Motion Picture Production Code
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Cimarron by Wesley Ruggles obtains the Academy Award (oscar) for best picture
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John Ford's Stagecoach revives the western genre as well as John Wayne's career after a decade of B movies
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Declaration by Waldorf and creation of the Hollywood Blacklist
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production of 95 westerns by the major movie studios
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Supreme Court decision in the case United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.
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Red River by Howard hawkes rekindles the western genre after WWII
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54 westerns are produced by the major film studios
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How the West Was Won by Henry Hathaway, John Ford and George Marshall is the last epic western
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Monument Valley beacome a park in the Navajo Reservation
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The projection of Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy in the United States changes the western genre
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The Wild bunch by Sam Peckinpah brings on a truning point in the representation of violence on the big screen
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20 westerns are produed by the major film studios
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Release of three pro-indians movies : Little Big Man, Soldier Blue, A man Called Horse
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Release of the "Crying Indian" publicity campaign against pollution
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Washout of Heaven's Gate by Micheal Cimino which marks the end of the New Hollywood : only 6 westerns are produced by the major film sutdios
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Dances With Wolves is nominated for 12 Academy Awards
