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The following events occurred in the 1870s:
Events[]
- The Bohemian Grove Illuminati group emerges.[1]
- White prospectors find gold in Wallowa Valley, homeland of the Nez Perce.[1]
- Twin Peaks, Washington community is founded.[1]
1870[]
- Thomas Randolph Jefferson finds a cache of manuscript by his father, President Thomas Jefferson.[1]
1877[]
- Summer – Chief Joseph goes to place of "Sky People" formerly visited by Meriwether Lewis before retreating to Canada.[1]
- August – General Oliver Howard contacts Colonel Nelson Miles about the Nez Perce's retreat to British Columbia.[1]
- October 5 – 30 miles south of the Canadian border, Chief Joseph surrenders to General Howard.[1]
- For 31 years, Captain Charles Erskine Wood and Chief Joseph plead their case to three different presidents.[1]
1879[]
- Wayne Chance writes an entry about his finding of the Owl Cave with Denver Bob Hobbes, using a "Yakima map".[1]
- January 14 – Joseph delivers "A Plea for Peace & Equality" to Washington, D.C.[1]
Births[]
- 1878 – Unguin Packard[2]
