Black Hills gold rush document signed by Custer

Heading: (Custer, George Armstrong)
Author:
Title: Autograph expense report signed "Gen. G.A. Custer" on U.S. Army document
Place Published: Bismarck, North Dakota
Publisher:
Date Published: 1875
Description:

U.S. Army manuscript expense report for telegraph usage. Endorsement: 28.3x19.8 (11¼x7¾"); matted with portrait in Optium Museum Acrylic glass frame: 53x65 cm (20¾x25½").

Signed by George Armstrong Custer in the third person, "Bismarck D. T. / March 3rd 1875 / Rec'd from Gen. G. A. Custer (USD 55.41) fifty five dollars 7 41/100 in full of all dues to this office on public or private account to date." Additionally signed by telegraph operator John Mitchell Carnahan, the man who would later break the news to the world that Custer had died in the Battle of the Little Big Horn. The expenses date from the pivotal fall months in 1874 when Custer announced the discovery of Gold and thereby set off the gold rush which would lead to a broken treaty with the Sioux, the boomtown of Deadwood, and fatally to the Battle of the Little Big Horn where Custer met his nemesis.
Condition Report: A few chips and stains around edges, a few light creases; unexamined out of frame.