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Scene in the Black Hills—Bitter Creek Valley--Lithograph

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Scene in the Black Hills—Bitter Creek Valley--Lithograph
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Lithograph of the Bitter Creek Valley in the Black Hills, one of the earliest views. Two hunters and their dog in the foreground, tents and horses mid-ground, hills in the background. Possibly from one of Howard Stansbury's (1806 – 1863) expeditions.
(5.5" H x 9" W)

Native Americans have a long history in the Black Hills. After conquering the Cheyenne in 1776, the Lakota took over the territory of the Black Hills, which became central to their culture. In 1868, the U.S. government signed the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, exempting the Black Hills from all white settlement forever. However, when European Americans discovered gold there in 1874, as a result of George Armstrong Custer's Black Hills Expedition, erstwhile miners swept into the area in a gold rush. The US government reassigned the Lakota, against their wishes, to other reservations in western South Dakota. Unlike most of South Dakota, the Black Hills were settled by European Americans primarily from population centers to the west and south of the region, as miners flocked there from earlier gold boom locations in Colorado and Montana.

Burger Collection

Date: c. 1840's
City: Black Hills
State: North Dakota
ID: 22056