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The Black Hills journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge.
Author
"Dodge, Richard Irving; Kime, Wayne R."
Publisher
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press
Datec1996
ClassificationsMain Library Collection
Object numberF657.B6 D63 1996
Description274 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. In the spring and summer of 1875, Lt. Col. Richard Irving Dodge escorted the scientific expedition of geologist Walter P. Jenney into the Black Hills of the Dakotas to determine the truth of rumors of gold started by Gen. George Armstrong Custer the previous summer. The five-month trek north from Cheyenne, Wyoming, challenged Dodge's 452 men with their wagons and animals, but in many respects it was "a delightful
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