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Photographer: Mike Wintermantel
Taken: December 21, 2014
Caption: Custer Monument - Interpretive Display
Additional Description: Panel 13 - caption 3
Ulysses S. Grant
President Ulysses S. Grant ordered the army to bar miners from the Black Hills gold fields. When that proved impossible, the government tried to buy the mining country from the Indians. This led to bitter feeling among all the Sioux and their Cheyenne allies.
Ohio Historical Society Archives Library
Submitted: December 22, 2014, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p296057
File Size: 2.649 Megabytes

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