gold
5 articles on gold.
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The Custer Expedition of 1874 and the Discovery of Black Hills Gold
How Custer's 1874 expedition into the Black Hills confirmed gold and set off a rush that reshaped the region around Rapid City and the Lakota.
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The Thoen Stone and the Legend of the 1834 Gold Seekers
The inscribed sandstone slab found near Spearfish that hints at Black Hills gold seekers decades before Custer reached the region near Rapid City.
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Deadwood and the Gold Rush Next Door
Deadwood, the lawless gold camp in the northern Black Hills, drove the rush that shaped Rapid City, South Dakota and the whole region in the late 1870s.
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Lead and the Homestake Gold Mine
The Homestake mine at Lead, in the Black Hills near Rapid City, became one of the deepest and richest gold mines in the hemisphere over more than a century.
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The Rockerville Flume and the Gold Camps South of Rapid City
To work the dry placer ground at Rockerville, miners built a long wooden flume across the Black Hills near Rapid City. A look at an ambitious gamble.