The Battle of the Big Horn Site

Located about 65 miles east of Colstrip is the Battle of the Little Big Horn site, also referred to as Custer's Last Stand.

On the way to  right off of Hiway 212 at Busby is this lone Trading Post store.  Next to it is a large, but in badly need of repair, wooden tepee structure.  We need to find out the history on it.

 Besides a Visitors Center, you can take a 5 miles driving tour of the area where the battle took place.  A narration is given by calling a number on your cell phone and listening to the events of that fateful day on June 25-26, 1876 when Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes battled the 7th. Calvary Regiment of the US Army in the Great Sioux War pf 1876.  A force of 700 men led by George Armstrong Custer, suffered a severe defeat.
There is also a large well groomed military cemetery.

At the top of a hill is a large monument and all over the hillside below are small markers showing the spot where various soldiers and Indians fell to their deaths.