The Mystery of the Thoen Stone
In 1874 , decades after theCaliforniaGold Rush of 1849 , an expedition led by General Custer sustain that there was also gilded in the Black Hills of South Dakota . The resulting Black Hills Gold Rush caused people to flock to the Midwest , establishingthe infamous Ithiel Town of Deadwood , among other thing . But was gold in reality found in South Dakota ? In 1887 , Louis and Ivan Thoen stumbled upon an object that throws the entire timeline of gold discovery into question ....