<Tr> <Td> 1853 </Td> <Td> Mar </Td> <Td> Levi Strauss arrives in San Francisco and opens a store supplying goods and clothing to Gold Rush miners . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Mar 2 </Td> <Td> The Washington Territory is organized from a portion of the Oregon Territory . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Jun 27 </Td> <Td> Fort Riley is established in what is now Kansas . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Jul 13 </Td> <Td> In the case of Holmes v. Ford, the Oregon Territorial Supreme Court demands that slave owner Nathaniel Ford free the enslaved children of Robin and Polly Holmes, whom Ford had brought with him from Missouri on the Oregon Trail . The decision reaffirms that slavery is illegal in the Oregon Territory and concludes the last challenge of abolitionist law by pro-slavery elements living in Oregon . </Td> </Tr>

When did the wild west stop being wild