The Battlefield of General George A. Custer's Battle of the Little Big Horn (25 Juni 1876) is now a United States National Monument. Major-General Custer, whom the Indians knew as "Long Hair", was killed alongside his men, almost certainly on what is today known as Last Stand Hill.

Just the day before Custer's Last Battle, a supply boat called the "Far West" was making a difficult upstream journey to the junction of Montana's Big Horn and Little Big Horn, for a pre-arranged rendez-vous with Custer's commanding officer General Alfred H. Terry. And about the same time, some fifty miles to the west, a mule-drawn freight wagon from Bozeman, Montana, with a very valuable load of miner's gold was making its way towards Bismarck, North Dakota.

The day after the Custer massacre, Captain Marsh of the supply boat discovered he had missed the rendezvous point. He met the badly frightened driver of the freight wagon, who pleaded Marsh to take over the shipment of gold and silver and deliver it to Bismarck, as he seriously doubted his own chances of getting through alive. Marsh agreed, but because of the continued danger from the Indians, the gold was hidden at some suitable spot on shore... and was never retrieved.

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