Boston and Wyoming Copper-Gold Co. - Custer City, South Dakota Mining Stock Certificate
Inv# MS3103 Stock
Stock printed by Goes. Custer City, South Dakota. Issued to F.A. Gira of Custer, Custer county, has met with marked success as a grower of fruit and has proved that fruit raising may be profitably followed in this state. He was born at Milan, Ohio, October 4, 1860, a son of John and Clara (Burwick) Gira. More information included with stock from the "History of Dakota Territory" by George W. Kingsbury.
Custer is a city in Custer County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 1,919 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Custer County. Custer is the oldest town established by European Americans in the Black Hills. Gold was discovered east of Custer during the Black Hills Expedition, conducted by the 7th Cavalry led by Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer, a discovery which initiated the Black Hills Gold Rush. For thousands of years, the Black Hills had been part of the territory of varying tribes of indigenous peoples. They were within historical territory of the Oglala Sioux at the time of United States encounter, and within the Great Sioux Reservation established by the US Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868). Having established dominance in the area by the eighteenth century, the Oglala Sioux had long considered the Black Hills as sacred land. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer,_South_Dakota
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