Black Hills Gold Rush of 1874

In the fall of 1873, General Philip Sheridan, commander of the Western Division of the Missouri, discussed with President Grant the advisability of establishing a new fort somewhere in the Black Hills of Dakota Territory. The purpose of the fort would ...

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