“Custer Camp Site May 6-7 1873”
306
1960
Yankton
(Note: any text in italics has been taken from the official SDSHS records.)
Marker Text
Custer with 7th Cavalry, 800 men, 700 horses, 202 mules and families of officers and enlisted men left Yankton early that day and made his night camp here, going on to the Owen’s Ranch on Snatch Creek the next day. He was enroute to Fort Abraham Lincoln, near Bismarck.
Location
Yankton County, Hwy 50, 9 miles west of Yankton