Plains Indian Wars ... Generals George Custer and Philip Sheridan and a Fort Sheridan connection
Steve Draska has researched and walked sites from Little Big Horn to the Pine Ridge Massacre, and with his sense of history resides at Fort Sheridan. Native Americans were brought to Fort Sheridan as prisoners, but were soon released to live on Fort.
Steven Draska is a wreck diver and history buff who grew up in Chicago’s Lincoln Park. While in college, Draska was introduced to scuba while training as a Chicago Park District lifeguard. He has since searched, researched, dived and made recovery’s from as far away as the Black Sea to as close as the Highland Park shoreline. He is an original member of the Chicago Maritime Society and a long-time resident of Highland Park with his wife Judith and twins Chris and Brit.
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