Black Hills Gold Rush (1874) Gold was discovered in the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1874 during an expedition led by General George Custer. This discovery triggered the Black Hills Gold Rush, which ...
Black Hills History Tours: The Gold Rush. Wolff is a history professor, who developed a series of field trips to help his students retain information.
Current plans to update our 152-year-old mining laws fail to redress centuries of mineral-extractive colonialism.