Planning a Trip to South Dakota & Wyoming

Horsedoc wrote:
Not recommending staying there, but if you do, you are visiting history in the area. Right across the barbed wire fence on the side road of Wheels West is where Custer camped on his expedition to ostensibly to run the white men out of the Black Hills. There is a monument to one of his men who died and is buried there. Just up the road a couple hundred yards is where his expedition found gold on French Creek leading to the Indians being driven from their sacred hills. Across hiway 16 and again on the banks of French Creek is the site of the original Stockade settlement the trespassers had built before Custer arrived.

Now the RV Park itself has a great little café for breakfasts and the food is fantastic. There may be a couple of good sites, but the one we were in is too narrow and one could actually fall off the site pad and down an embankment.
Easy access to the area, but not a place we will stay again.

close description, but wrong historical years. Custers expedition was in 1874, the discovery of gold in French Creek at the site of the Wheels West Camp by a prospector in his expedition is what started the rush. In 1875, the first group of gold seekers came to Custer and built the stockade in violation of the 1868 ft. Laramie treaty. In 1876 the massive rush to the Black Hills precipitated the tribes to unite to respond to the invasion of their lands. In response Pres. Grant sent the army under Gen.s Miles and Crook to regotiate a peace with show of force and promise of cooperation to remove the invaders of treaty lands. Demoted lt. col. Custer not Gen. ( for his attack on non belligerents) against Gen. staff orders attacked the native encampment on little big horn river in Montana, June 25-26 1876. The natives were wronged. SCOTUS has awarded the tribes $$$$$$'s judgement for the lands, for which the tribes refuse to accept, demanding the return of all federal lands in the 1868 treaty to their ownership as 'sacred'.
I am not a native american My ancestors came from over there like yours.
I am a student of the land I Iive on and ( wrongly? ) own.