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The Black Hills Gold Rush: How One Strike Lit The Fuse For War

In 1874, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer led a thousand soldiers into the Black Hills—land guaranteed by treaty to the Lakota Sioux. His mission was supposedly scientific. His real goal? Confirm rumors of gold. Within weeks, he found it. Within a year, fifteen thousand miners flooded into sacred territory. Within two years, the U.S. was at war with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse—a war that would end with the theft of the Black Hills, Custer's death at Little Bighorn, and the carving of Mount Rushmore into a sacred Lakota mountain. This is the true story of the Black Hills Gold Rush: how Custer's 1874 expedition triggered the largest land theft in American history, how economic desperation drove thousands to Deadwood, and how broken treaties and brutal economics destroyed the Lakota homeland forever. 📍 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: The 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty and why President Ulysses S. Grant broke it George Armstrong Custer's 1874 expedition and the gold discovery on July 27 The Gordon Party—first miners to defy the treaty in winter 1874 How Grant stopped enforcing the treaty in November 1875 The explosion of Deadwood—where Wild Bill Hickok died in 1876 The Homestake Mine in Lead, SD—125 years, 40 million ounces of gold Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse's resistance and the Great Sioux War The Battle of Little Bighorn: Custer's Last Stand (June 25, 1876) The 1877 theft of the Black Hills (signed by only 10% of required Lakota) Why Mount Rushmore stands on stolen land—the sacred Six Grandfathers The 1980 Supreme Court ruling—and why the Lakota still refuse payment 🎯 THE REAL HISTORY: No romanticized myths. Just documented facts about how Custer's gold discovery, Grant's betrayal, and government policy destroyed a sacred homeland. From the Panic of 1873 to the streets of Deadwood where Wild Bill Hickok was shot, from Sitting Bull's resistance to Crazy Horse's surrender, from Custer's death at Little Bighorn to Mount Rushmore carved into stolen mountains—this is frontier history that reveals the brutal economic realities behind westward expansion. .............................................................................................................................. All stories on this channel are researched, written, and edited by me, with AI tools used only to assist drafting and imagery.