“After years of need, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Montana is getting a bigger and better visitor center, one with the space and proper environmental controls to display more of the monument’s archaeological collections.
The 2008 plan called for an enclosed theater seating 200 people at the base of Last Stand Hill, site of the climax of the 1876 battle in which Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and five companies of the 7th Cavalry were wiped out. While concerns over the project had prompted then-National Park Service Director Mary Bomar to give the project further review, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility went to court to stop the project, claiming it would occupy the middle of the battlefield and block views of how the battle evolved as well as where it ended.”