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Fort Custer

A view from 1939:

SITE OF FORT CUSTER, (3,041 alt.), on the bluff above the confluence of the Big Horn and Little Horn Rivers. It was built by Lt. Col. George P. Buell in 1877, the year after the Custer battle. Since there were no further uprisings in the vicinity, the soldiers had plenty of time for entertainment. John Maguire, pioneer impresario from Butte, occasionaly visited the fort on his tours of the settlements. In March 1880 he presented Captain John Smith, using Crow in the cast. At the point where Pocahontas was pleading for the life of John Smith, a Crow burst into the theater, shouting that a band of Sioux had stolen the Crow horses from the hitching rack outside. While the bugler blew boots and saddles Chief Plenty Coups called a hurried war council and the Indians joined the cavalry in pursuit of the thieves.

Source: Montana: A State Guide Book; Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Montana; September, 1939.