On this site on the evening of August 19, 1876, twenty-four-year-old pony mail carrier Charles "Red" Nolin was shot and scalped. Members of the Schofeld Freighting Outfit had asked him to stay with them for the night because of Indians in the area, but he declined because he had promised his mother he would return home once he completed his delivery. His body was found the next day and was buried here until 1889, when it was moved to Bear Butte Cemetery in Sturgis. Nolin had been carrying mail from either Ft. Pierre or Sydney, NE, to Deadwood. In early spring 1932, a group of Sturgis pioneers and the Commercial Club formed a committee and enlisted the Society of Black Hills Pioneers and the City of Sturgis to build a monument designed by Roy Erickson from rose quartz, milky quartz, and silver ore, with materials donated from Custer, Nemo, Galena, and Consolidated Power and Light Co. The monument was dedicated on Memorial Day, May 30, 1932, with 4000 people in attendance from across the Black Hills, including representatives of Indian tribes, and it was restored in 2017 by a group sponsored by Regional Health Hospital Sturgis. Nolin's body had also been moved to Bear Bute Cemetery in Sturgis in June 1889 by local citizens, and a new bronze marker was added there in 1982 by the Sturgis Senior Citizens and Chamber of Commerce Centennial Committee.