Black Hills gold rush - Wikipedia
The Black Hills gold rush took place in Dakota Territory in the United States. It began in 1874 following the Custer Expedition and reached a peak in 1876–77. Rumors and poorly documented reports of gold in the Black Hills go back to the early 19th century.
The Black Hills Gold Rush
2019年10月15日 · The Black Hills Gold Rush began in 1874, when Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer led a group of over 1,000 men from Fort Abraham Lincoln in the Dakota Territory (present-day Bismarck, North Dakota) to the Black Hills.
Black Hills Gold Rush - WorldAtlas
2022年4月12日 · The Black Hills Gold Rush was a rapid movement of people that occurred when a goldfield was discovered in the Black Hills region within the Dakota Territory in the United States. The 1874 Custer Expedition kickstarted the rush upon discovering a gold stronghold after searching for the source of the trace gold within the Deadwood and Whitewood ...
Black Hills Gold Rush 1874 - American History
Black Hill Gold Rush refers to the rush of American miners and settlers to the Dakota Territory in search for gold. In 1874, gold was discovered in the area by a group of American explorers. Although the territory belonged to the Native American Sioux tribe, thousands of American settlers started arriving in the area in the hope of mining gold ...
Black Hills National Forest - History & Culture - US Forest Service
Since Colonel George Custer’s expedition of 1874 confirmed the presence of gold in French Creek, (near present-day Custer, SD) word spread quickly and triggered the Black Hills Gold Rush. By 1876, approximately 10,000 people populated the Hills.
1874 Black Hills Expedition | Kirkby Teaching Resources
Those wildly inflated reports touched off a gold rush craze and calls to seize the Black Hills, a land theft that would cause tragic, irreparable harm to the Lakota people and lead to many deaths two years later at the Battle of Pezi Sla (Little Bighorn) and far more in the following years.
As Lt. Col. Custer led 1000 men through the Black Hills, two miners attached to the troop uncovered small quantities of gold near present day Custer, South Dakota. As word spread, the rush began. Prospectors flocked to the southern Black Hills, looking for their share of gold.
"Review of Gold Rush: The Black Hills Story Compiled by John …
2012年8月21日 · The Black Hills Gold Rush, instigated by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer's 1874 expedition to the Hills confirming that there was gold there "among the roots of the grass," was an event important to both the nation and the future state of South Dakota, not to mention to the Native Americans who had inhabited the area for centuries.
THE BLACK HILLS GOLD RUSH - U.S. National Park Service
2001年10月20日 · the black hills gold rush As related above, the Black Hills were thrown open to prospectors in the fall of 1876 (the Army had discontinued its prohibition in the summer of 1875). Like the rush of the Forty-niners, the Black Hills rush …
Gold in the Black Hills - South Dakota Historical Society Press
Gold in the Black Hills brings to life the days "when adventure stood by a man's elbow, fortune lay at the tip of his shovel, and it was good to be alive." In this classic account of the Black Hills gold rush of 1874–1879, Watson Parker weaves a delightful and authoritative guide out of the chaotic and complex history of early settlement.