Jan 20th The Southern-Pacific Rail line is robbed of $20,000 in Goshen, CA
Jan 25th Nellie Bly completes her around the world trip in 72 days
Feb 11th President Harrison declares the Great Sioux Reservation in South Dakota open for settlement
May 2nd A Choctaw Indian suggests the renaming of Indian Territory to "Oklahoma" (meaning Red Person)
Jun 20th Oscar Wilde publishes "The Portrait of Dorian Gray"
Jul 2nd The Sherman Anti-Trust Act is passed making every contract or form of trust that restricts trade of commerce illegal
Jul 3rd Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state
Jul 10th Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state
Jul 14th A fire in Prescott, AZ destroys much of the town
Oct 1st Yosemite National Park is created
Oct 6th The Mormon Church prohibits polygamy, bowing to government pressure
Oct 9th The Ghost Dance is performed for the first time in Sitting Bull's camp in Standing Rock Agency in S Dakota
Nov 29th The first Army-Navy college football game is played (Navy 24 - Army 0)
Dec 4th Continued Ghost dances agitate the Dakotas & Nebraska. Congress appropriates $5,000 for arms & ammunition for their residents
Dec 15th Sitting Bull is accidentally killed during an attempted arrest by Indian police in Grand River, SD
Dec 29th Wounded Knee Massacre: the U.S. 7th Cavalry attempts to disarm an Indian camp & a melee ensues. As many as 150-250 men, women, children & soldiers are killed. 150 flee the scene. A blizzard postpones burials for days
Other
U.S. census reports 63 million Americans, twice that since 1860. The Census Bureau reports the frontier is no longer unsettled.
The Native American Indian population is estimated to be just 248,000
