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The Black Hills, located in present-day western South Dakota, became an important source to the Lakota for lodge poles, plant resources and small game. A map of the Great Sioux Reservation as established in 1868. "Unceded lands" for Cheyenne and Sioux use were west of the reservation in Montana and Wyoming.
The Black Hills, the United States' oldest mountain range, [11] is 125 miles (201 km) long and 65 miles (105 km) wide stretching across South Dakota and Wyoming. [12] The Black Hills derived its name from the black image that is produced by the "thick forest of pine and spruce trees" that covers the hills and was given the name by the Native Americans belonging to the Lakota (Sioux). [13]
The Black Hills Expedition was a United States Army expedition in 1874 led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer that set out on July 2, 1874, from Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Territory, which is south of modern day Mandan, North Dakota, with orders to travel to the previously uncharted Black Hills of South Dakota.
Gold in the Black Hills. South Dakota State Historical Society Press. ISBN 9780985281762. Parker, Watson, ed. (1977). "The Report of Captain John Mix of a Scout to the Black Hills, March-April 1875" (PDF). South Dakota History. 7 (4). South Dakota State Historical Society: 385– 401 "Gordon Stockade". The Wi-Iyohi. 15 (11).
Custer's Black Hills Expedition. The Black Hills gold rush began in 1874. The first arrivals were a force of 1,000 men led by George Armstrong Custer to investigate reports that the area contained gold, [5] even though the land was owned by the Sioux. [6] They found small amounts of gold in present-day Custer, South Dakota, and looked for better
The Sioux Wars were a series of conflicts between the United States and various subgroups of the Sioux people which occurred in the later half of the 19th century. The earliest conflict came in 1854 when a fight broke out at Fort Laramie in Wyoming, when Sioux warriors killed 31 American soldiers in the Grattan Massacre, and the final came in 1890 during the Ghost Dance War.
Central City was founded in 1877. [1] It was named after Central City, Colorado, by a settler from that community. [citation needed] It began as a mining town during the Black Hills Gold Rush days. There was once a quarrel over mining boundaries that resulted in a deliberate explosion of the nearby Comstock Mine and the death of one man.
Ericksen, Neil J. “A Tale of Two Cities: Flood History and the Prophetic Past of Rapid City, South Dakota.” Economic Geography 51#4 (1975), pp. 305–20. online; Federal Writers' Project, A South Dakota Guide (1938, 1993 reprint) Fite, Gilbert C. "South Dakota's Rural Credit System: A Venture in State Socialism, 1917–1946."