. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... OBVERSE OF CENTENNIAi. REVERSE OF CENTENNIAL MEDAL. dition confirmed the stories of the discoveryof gold, and immediate preparations weremade by parties of miners to proceed to thefavored lands for the purpose of working thegold mines. These expeditions being re-ported to the Government, measures weretaken by the War Department to prevent 12S ADMINISTRATION OP^ ULYSSP:S S. GRANT. any intrusion into the Indian this prohibit
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... OBVERSE OF CENTENNIAi. REVERSE OF CENTENNIAL MEDAL. dition confirmed the stories of the discoveryof gold, and immediate preparations weremade by parties of miners to proceed to thefavored lands for the purpose of working thegold mines. These expeditions being re-ported to the Government, measures weretaken by the War Department to prevent 12S ADMINISTRATION OP^ ULYSSP:S S. GRANT. any intrusion into the Indian this prohibition, privateexpeditions were fitted out and started forthe Black Hills. Some of these were drivenback by the Indians, with loss of life andproperty, but others succeeded in reachingthe Black Hills. It was now evident that a systematic anddetermined effort would be made to settlethe Black Hills, in spite of the opposition of to retire to the reservation to which thetreaty of 1867 confined them, and now tookadvantage of the intrusions of the whites intotheir territory to gratify their long-cherishedwish for war. They broke away from theirreservation, and made repe
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