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Thieves' Road - The Black Hills Betrayal and Custer's Path to Little Bighorn (Paperback)
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Thieves' Road - The Black Hills Betrayal and Custer's Path to Little Bighorn (Paperback)
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Highlights a little-known expedition of General George Custer to
the Black Hills of South Dakota, showing how it set the stage for
later conflict with the Sioux and the Battle of Little Bighorn.
This fascinating narrative history tells the story of General
George Armstrong Custer's 1874 expedition into the Black Hills of
South Dakota 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 Age excesses,
the building of the western railroads, the white settlements that
followed the tracks, the Crash of 1873, mining ventures, and the
clash of white and Indian cultures with diametrically opposed
values. The discovery of gold in the Black Hills was the beginning
of the end of Sioux territorial independence. By the end of the
book it is clear why the Sioux leader Fast Bear called the trail
cut by Custer to the Black Hills "thieves' road."
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