1. Here they are… back by popular demand… Mrs. Piermattei’s one and only famous patented cheesy rhymes!!!

2. Remember to say the date out loud in full to make the rhyme E.g. “In eighteen hundred and forty nine......” Chanting these to yourself will help you remember them Test yourself by not clicking on the answer to see if you can remember it If you can think of a better rhyme, let me know!

3. In 1825... Mountain Men kept the fur trade alive

4. In 1827... Joseph Smith had a vision from heaven

5. In 1843... Wagons are crossing the great “praireee!”

6. In 1845... Manifest Destiny comes alive

7. In 1846... Brigham Young saves the Mormons from insults and sticks

8. In 1849... Everyone rushed to the Californian mines

9. In 1851... Fort Laramie’s treaty tried to please everyone

10. In 1859... The treaty was broken at a Colorado mine

11. In 1861... Indians meet settlers at Fort Lyon

12. In 1862... The Homestead Act gave free land -yoo-hoo!

13. In 1864... Peace with the Cheyenne was broken once more Sand Creek Massacre

14. 1865... The civil war ended, no more north south divide

15. In 1867... Abilene becomes a cowboy’s haven

16. In 1868... Red Cloud to Fort Laramie for a treaty debate

17. In 1869... East joined west by a railway line

18. In 1873... More land for free, if you plant some trees

19. By 1875... Cowboys worked hard on the long cattle drive

20. In 1874... Barbed wire makes fencing a problem no more

21. In 1874... Gold in the Black Hills means serious war

22. In 1876 Custer’s Cavalry were in a fix Battle of the Little Bighorn(Custer’s Last Stand)

23. In 1887... Tribes were split up in the Dawes Act convention

24. In 1891... At Wounded Knee the settlers had won

25. In 1892... Johnson County vigilantes were a terrible crew

26. By the beginning of the Twentieth Century... The American Frontier was history....