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James spent almost his entire academic career at Harvard. He was appointed instructor in physiology for the spring 1873 term, instructor in anatomy and physiology in 1873, assistant professor of psychology in 1876, assistant professor of philosophy in 1881, full professor in 1885, endowed chair in psychology in 1889, return to philosophy in 1897, and emeritus professor of philosophy in 1907. James studied medicine, physiology, and biology, and began to teach in those subjects, but was drawn to the scientific study of the human mind at a time when psychology was constituting itself as a scie -
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In 1883, at the age of 24, Teddy Roosevelt stepped off a train in Little Missouri (later called Medora) in the heart of Dakota territory. He'd come to join the hunt for the last buffalo. He went back East soon after his hunting trip was over. After his wife died in childbirth in 1884, Roosevelt returned to the West to take a personal hand in running the Maltese Cross Ranch which he'd invested in the previous year. The ranch was doing so well, he established a second ranch, the Elkhorn, just a little further on down the Little Missouri River. -
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Bullock came to Deadwood, South Dakota, on August 1, 1876, whereupon he opened a hardware store. Soon after his arrival, Bullock was asked to become the town's first sheriff. He accepted the job and continued to operate the hardware store on the side. Bullock was as brave a man as one could ask for, and a crack shot besides, but even so he used his gun rarely. He preferred strong words to hot lead. Later in his life, Bullock owned and operated a ranch which bordered on Teddy Roosevelt's Elkhorn ranch. Bullock is credited w/ introducing alfalfa as a crop to the Black Hills on his very ranch. -
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Red Cloud is war leader and a chief of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) since 1868. One of the most capable Native American opponents the United States Army faced, he led a successful campaign in 1866Ð1868 known as Red Cloud's War over control of the Powder River Country in northeastern Wyoming and southern Montana. Red Cloud's War was the name the US Army gave to a series of conflicts fought with American Indian Plains tribes in the Wyoming and Montana territories. The battles were waged between the Northern Cheyenne, allied w/ Lakota and Arapaho bands, against the United States Army between 1866 a -
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In 1882, Calkins entered into Smith College as a sophomore. She studied for the year, but in 1883 with the death of her sister she took the year off from college and studied on her own. She then returned to Smith College in 1884 to graduate with a concentration in classics and philosophy. Upon graduation, Calkins and her family took a sixteen month trip to Europe. When she returned to Massachusetts, her father set up an interview with the President of Wellesley College, an all women's college, for a tutoring job. She worked as a teacher in the Greek department for three years until a professo