1870S
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NARRATOR: The
Indian Wars of the 1870s .
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As valuable as any old 1870's peso. | As valuable as any old 1870's peso.
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ANJA TAYLOR: In the 1870s ,
rabbits hit plague proportions.
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Texas in the 1870s still had
a frontier to it.
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By the 1870s , this area became almost immediately
a tourist attraction.
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Back in the 1870s , that was all covered
with huge trees.
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Asbestos is
a naturally occurring mineral that has been mined
since the 1870s .
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Wade: IN THE 1870s , LAKE HURON WAS PART
OF A VALUABLE GRAIN ROUTE.
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- This is the fourth one
that died in the 1870s . - Must've been a bad year.
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It also was the oldest
of the major towns Right around here,
having started in 1870s .
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Man: Although Castle Hart
was built in the 1870s , the estate dates all the
way back to 1633.
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Back in the early 1870s , all
this land you see around here, it's being claimed up by miners.
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I've been doing
some research with Gypsy and with Donna, and it appears
to be from the 1870s .
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(steam engine chugging) It's the 1870s and America
is undergoing a massive shift in where people live and work.
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In the 1870s , farmers
were still ploughing their land with a design that hadn't seen
any major improvement for centuries.
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And there would remain to be
a lot of bison there up until into the 1870s ,
when the real hammer fell.
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By the 1870s ,
no-one had successfully exported a frozen cargo from Australia all the way through the tropics
to England.
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During the post‐Civil War
years of the early 18 1870s the state of Texas was still
very much frontier land.
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And these two believe firmly
that they are hot on the trail of a treasure stashed by Sam Bass in the 1870s sometime.
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Geophysicist Tim Bechtel
suspects that in the 1870s , the other 49 were reburied elsewhere
to make room for a new set of tracks.
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Leadville in its glory days, in the late 1870s up till about 1893 was the largest and most prosperous, wealthiest
mining community in Colorado.
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- Okay, so in the late 1870s , a man named Erwin Percy was trying to develop
an ultra-bright light source for a surgical lamp.
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Tim believes the answer to the
mystery goes back to the 1870s , 40 years after the deaths, when the rail-line was improved
for modern trains.
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So, it's between 1856 and 1860, and then they came back
after the Civil War, so, some of that occurred
after the war, so, 1865 to 1870s .
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150th anniversary, the springtime here
looks and feels every bit as it did when Ferdinand Hayden and his team first
arrived in the 1870s .
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that sleeping outside, or even camping
in a tent for pleasure, were barely heard of
in the 1870s , so Stevenson
was way ahead of his time.
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It was used in the Spanish American
War and by the British Army who used it against the Zulu tribes in
South Africa in the 1870s and '80s.
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By the 1870s , when
the expansion of railroads would replace riverboats for
commerce and transportation in the U.S., more than 400
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‐NARRATOR: Matty, Donna and Gypsy arrive in the city of Springtown,
where Sam Bass and his gang established
one of two known hideouts back in the late 1870 1870s
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Narrator: For nearly
two generations, following the destruction
wrought by the hide hunters in the early 1870s , the Kiowas
had passed along a legend told by Old Lady Horse
about the last buffalo herd.
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Accounts of that herd's
origins differ, but according to
tribal oral history, sometime in the 1870s ,
a young man named Latatí traveled east
over the Rocky Mountains to the buffalo plains
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And you can see that looking
at, say, the documentary "The Moon and the Sledgehammer” where you're looking at a
family living in the 1970s, but you may as well be looking at a family living in the 18 1870s
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If anybody's claustrophobic or you're scared of the dark, we don't want you
coming in here. J.B. "Firebug" Johnson
started a major riot in the prison in the 1870s in the prison in the 1870s where they burnt down
a bunch of factories. And you can see
where Firebug Johnson was down here
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the obliteration. The only building
that was still standing was an old mosque
built in the 1870s .
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as the Indian Wars. [Steven] Native Americans
had attacked white settlers who'd encroached
on their lands. And by the 1870s ,
the US Government
had forced them onto reservations. And the native people
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LIKE MANY INVENTIONS, THE CARDBOARD BOX WAS BORN
BY SHEER ACCIDENT. IN THE 1870s , AN AMERICAN PRINTER
BY THE NAME OF ROBERT GAIR STUMBLED UPON THE IDEA. BY MISTAKE, HE CUT A PAPER
SEED BAG HE WAS CREASING WITH A METAL RULER. GAIR CONCLUDED HE COULD CREATE
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It really paints a great picture
of what it would have been like, and because it was written
in the 1870s , Marcus Clarke had the wisdom
of hindsight, I guess, to do all this research and cobble
all these crazy stories together, which individually
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in order to win the war. Fast-forward 16 years, and America was nowhere near
paying off those loans. So the Civil War debt
in the 1870s into the 1880s looms as this huge problem.
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[Steven] In the 1870s , soldiers stationed at
Camp Reynolds on Angel Island, were waiting for the call
to return to the dreaded Modoc War. Meanwhile, back on
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And that knowledge led to guilt. In the 1870s , a mass movement
was formed. It was called the Society for the
Suppression of the Opium Trade. It published pamphlets and books
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an A-list celebrity today. Blight:
Especially after he appeared
on the cover of "Harper's" in the 1870s . Once you're on the cover of
"Harper's," that was like "Time" magazine and Google
put together back then.
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welsh, and irish immigrants. Using the grains
that they could grow locally, different regions developed
their own distinct style. In the south, corn was king. And by the 1870s ,
kentucky bourbon had taken off. Whiskey production in japan
got its feet off the ground