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Wagon Train Rediscovers America

by | Mar 1, 2009 | Travel & Preservation

Riding the Fort Pierre to Deadwood Trail one hundred years later.
The discovery of gold in 1874 by Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer’s expedition ignited a stampede. Mining camps sprang up in the Dakota Territory’s Black Hills—Deadwood being the most notorious. One of the routes to Deadwood originated in Fort Pierre. On the Missouri River’s west bank, Fort Pierre was a natural stop for freighters transporting goods t


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