“Custer Camp Site”
320
1960
(Note: any text in italics has been taken from the official SDSHS records.)
Marker Text
May 7-11, 1873
Gen. Geo. Custer with 800 men of the 7th Cavalry, 800 horses, 202 mules, enroute from Yankton to Ft. Abraham Lincoln camped at Owen’s Ranch along Snatch Creek south and west of here for three days, awaiting the subsidence of Emanuel & Chouteau Creek then in flood.
Location
Bon Homme, SD Hwy 52 six miles west of intersection with Hwy 50 south of Tabor
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