A timeline of Memphis

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The Memphis onTNE Red!

Prehistory-1850 – Sixty thousand buffalo were being hunted by less than 10,000 Indians. 1861-1865 – Civil War. 1874 – Soldiers removed the Indians and left the buffalo. 1876 – The buffalo were nearly exterminated. 1878 – Col. Charles Goodnight brought in 1,000,000 cattle and the age of the cowboy. 1887- Fort Worth and Denver Railway br...

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