An important thoroughfare between Sidney, Nebraska and the Black Hills during the years 1876-1880. Heavily traveled by stage coaches, freight wagons and prospectors going between the railroad at Sidney, and the gold fields. — — Map (db m158997) HM
Gold was discovered in the Black Hills in August, 1874. By the spring of 1876, the Army had stopped enforcing a treaty which reserved the hills for the Sioux Indians. Miners soon began to pour into the gold regions. From 1875 to 1881, the . . . — — Map (db m231079) HM