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George Armstrong Custer
In 1874, Colonel George Custer announced that gold had been discovered in the South Dakota's Black Hills, inspiring another one of the west's famous gold rushes. Nearly overnight the nearby city of Deadwood had been established and grown to more than 5000 inhabitants. The only problem? An earlier treaty gave those lands to the Lakota. Surely this wouldn't lead to conflict…