Who is California Joe?
Devere Beach
Wadsworth, Ohio
Moses Embree Milner, a.k.a. California Joe, had quite an illustrious career as an adventurer, gold seeker, gunman and chief of scouts for George Armstrong Custer, who
made him famous.
In 1875, California Joe joined the Newton-Jenney expedition to confirm Custer’s reports of gold in the Black Hills of the Dakotas (he also illegally prospected for the precious dust). While there, he staked out a home site where Rapid City, South Dakota, i
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