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Custer

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A view from 1939:

CUSTER, (2,749 alt, 150 pop.) was named for Gen. George A. Custer, killed in the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

Junction, a former village on the left bank of the Yellowstone, was washed away by the river. It was a freighting station for the Crow Indian Reservation. Earlier, it had been a campground for those traveling to and from Fort Custer at the mouth of the Little Horn.

Several years ago the skeleton of a Triceratops, a giant dinosaur, was found in the Lance formation that forms the bluff on the left riverbank.

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.