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Beaver Creek

A tributary of the White River. With it's headwaters in the Pine Ridge escarpment in northern Nebraska, it has it's confluence with the White River two miles south of the Dakota Territory border.[1]

Stage West: In July of 1875,[1] a band of Sioux warriors attacked the west-bound Tomah stage just west of Beaver Creek and just east of Twin Bluffs. They had hoped to find Bret Maverick — who they called "Tall One with Yellow Coat" — on the stage, and kill him for taking gold from their land in the Black Hills. Not finding him, they destroyed and burned the coach, its freight, its horses and driver, and all its passengers.[3]