There was one problem: The Black Hills belonged to the Lakota Indians, the most potent Indian power on the Great Plains ... Custer’s official mission that summer, finding a site for a new ...

Traders and Indians alike were eagerly awaiting ... warned away from “the fatal destroyer” over the summer—and were still on the plains. He proposed going upriver with a doctor and $2,000 ...

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As white explorers and settlers entered Western territory, they disrupted a centuries-old culture — that of the Plains Indians. The arrival of the railroad and, with it, more permanent and ...