Jan Cerney

Black Hills Gold Rush Towns (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Rising out of the prairie, the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming had long been rumored to have promising quantities of gold. Sacred to the Lakota, the Black Hills was part of the land reserved for them in the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. However, the tide of prospectors seeking their fortune in the Black Hills was difficult to stem. Members of the 1874 Custer expedition, lead by Gen. George Armstrong Custer, found gold. In 1875, scientists Henry Newton and Walter Jenney conducted an expedition and confirmed the rumors. By 1876, the trickle of prospectors and settlers coming to the Black Hills was a flood. The US government realized that keeping the interlopers out was impossible, and in 1877 the Black Hills was officially opened to settlement. In this sequel to their Black Hills Gold Rush Towns book, the authors expand their coverage of Black Hills towns during the gold-rush era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439651292
• Artikelnr.: 43075371

Autorenporträt

This is the seventh book Jan Cerney has written for the Images of America series. Cerney lives on a ranch near the Badlands with her husband Bob. Roberta Sago is the special collections librarian and archivist for the Leland D. Case Library for Western Historical Studies and University Archives at Black Hills State University. Prior to coming to South Dakota, she worked as the manuscript librarian for the University of Texas at El Paso and in similar positions in Washington, D.C. Special thanks go to the Leland D. Case Library and the South Dakota State Historical Society Archives. Black Hills Gold Rush Towns is Sago's second book for Arcadia Publishing.