payroll robbery

[dakotadan]

hello all,, new to the site, spent four hours last night reading some of the forums, lotta good info. has anyone heard of the stagecoach carring a military payroll that was ambushed by indians in the 1860s or 70s? it happend in the northern part of south dakota around the mobridge, or mclaughlin area. any info at all would help immensely. thanks

 

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[omnicognic]

I would imagine that they spent it on guns and whiskey! 8)

 

[dakotadan]

perhaps they did,, my father was friends with a indian fellow back in 1967 who lived in the area this took place, he is the one who related the story to my father, his grandfather told him that when he walked to the indian school on the resevation he walked by the area daily and there were bones and parts of the buckboard that followed the stagecoach, he said he rememberd his father talking about it when he was a boy and his father said they had buried it in one of the caves nearby cause the strongbox was too heavy to carry on the run. one of the calvary regiments was not too far behind them as this took place within earshot of the fort.

 

[Dargorygel]

Are you still pursuing this? I know a woman who might have some info from that area.