Custer collectors make a stand.(News)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: May 6, 2006 | Copyright information

Next month will mark 130 years since Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and elements of the 7th Cavalry attacked a massive Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne encampment along Montana's Little Bighorn River. What followed was one of the most storied and controversial battles in the history of the American West. Strong feelings still abound, partly over how best to tell the story of the mythic day. The National Park Service operates a cramped and deteriorating visitor's center on the battlefield, where only ...

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