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The 1880s: 1880–1889
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European diplomats divided Africa into colonies at the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 without consulting a single African. In the American West, the open range was closing under barbed wire, and Wyatt Earp's vendetta ride followed the O.K. Corral gunfight of 1881.
1881 shot up Tombstone and 1884-85 carved up a continent. Tombstone stages the Earp-Clanton feud, and True Grit sends a fourteen-year-old girl after her father's killer with a one-eyed marshal. Open the 1880s on the StoryTerra map and explore its stories by place.
10 famous stories set in the 1880s
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Browse 195 books, 179 movies, 5 TV shows and 3 games set in the 1880s (1880–1889).
Back to the Future Part III
The final installment of the Back to the Future trilogy finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down the travelers are…
Enola Holmes 2
Now a detective-for-hire like her infamous brother Enola Holmes takes on her first official case to find a missing girl as the sparks of a dangerous conspiracy ignite a mystery that requires the help of friends — and…
Unforgiven
William Munny is a retired once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute.…
Tombstone
Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp now a weary gunfighter joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help…
Rango
When Rango a lost family pet accidentally winds up in the gritty gun-slinging town of Dirt the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stands out. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for new…
True Grit
Following the murder of her father by a hired hand a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find—a man with 'true grit'—Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn.
The Magnificent Seven
An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.
3:10 to Yuma
In Arizona in the late 1800s infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured Civil War veteran Dan Evans struggling to survive on his…
Stagecoach
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Outlaw Jesse James is rumored to be the 'fastest gun in the West'. An eager recruit into James' notorious gang Robert Ford eventually grows jealous of the famed outlaw and when Robert and his brother sense an…
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