Thieves' road : the Black Hills betrayal and Custer's path to Little Bighorn

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Thieves' road : the Black Hills betrayal and Custer's path to Little Bighorn

Title remainder

the Black Hills betrayal and Custer's path to Little Bighorn

Statement of responsibility

Terry Mort

Title variation

Thieves road

Title variation remainder

the Black Hills betrayal and Custers path to Little Bighorn

Creator

• trueMort, T. A., (Terry A)

Subject

• Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) -- Discovery and exploration
• Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) -- Gold discoveries
• Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) -- History -- 19th century
• trueCulture conflict
• Custer, George A., (George Armstrong), 1839-1876 -- Travel -- Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.)
• trueDakota (North American people)
• Dakota Indians
• trueEuropean-Americans
• trueGold mines and mining
• trueGold prospecting
• trueGold rush
• trueIndians of North America -- Relations with European-Americans
• Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895
• trueIndigenous peoples of North America
• trueIndigenous peoples of North America -- Relations with European-Americans
• trueMines and mineral resources
• trueRace relations
• trueRevenge
• trueSacred space
• trueSouth Dakota
• trueUnited States -- History -- 1865-1898
• trueBlack Hills

Language

eng

Summary

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

Writing style

• trueEngaging
• trueRichly detailed
• trueDescriptive

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

978.3/9

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

F657.B6

LC item number

M67 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography