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Indian couple has big plans for Little Big Horn Camp


An Indian couple has big plans for the Little Big Horn Camp in Montana, including brand new developments and a museum to display the historic "Custer's Last Rally" painting.

Leonard "Sonny" Hare, a member of the Yankton Sioux Tribe, and his wife Jackie Yellowtail Hare, a member of the Crow Tribe, bought the camp, located on the Crow Reservation. It currently has a small motel, coin-operated laundry and RV park.

But in the next couple of years, the couple plans to add a pizza parlor, a bigger hotel, a restaurant, an auto parts store, an auto service center, a convenience store and an RV facility. The development will cost an estimated $7.5 million.

Also in the works is a museum to house the famous "Custer" artwork. Hare is buying the 11-by-20-foot painting, which is appraised between $5.5 million to $6 million.

Get the Story:
'Custer's Last Rally: 'Hardin resident buying historic painting (The Billings Gazette 6/28)

Relevant Links:
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument - http://www.nps.gov/libi

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