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In the summer of 1874, Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer led an expedition of some 1000 troops and more than one hundred wagons into the Black Hills of South Dakota. This fascinating work of narrative history tells the little-known story of this exploratory mission and reveals how it set the stage for the climactic Battle of the Little Bighorn two years later.What is the significance of this obscure foray into the Black Hills? The short answer, as the author explains, is that Custer found gold. This discovery in the context of the worst economic depression the country had yet experienced spurred a gold rush that brought hordes of white prospectors to the Sioux's sacred grounds. The result was the trampling of an 1868 treaty that had granted the Black Hills to the Sioux and their inevitable retaliation against the white invasion.The author brings the era of the Grant administration to life, with its "peace policy" of settling the Indians on reservations, corrupt federal Indian Bureau, Gilded…
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- Title Thieves' Road: The Black Hills Betrayal and Custer's Path to Little Bighorn
- Author Terry Mort
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 341
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY
- Date 2018
- ISBN 9781633883338 / 1633883337
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: Midwest
- Cultural Region: Upper Midwest
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Geographic Orientation: South Dakota
- Dewey Decimal Code 978.39
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