The Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to the Lewis and Clark expedition. If you're interested in their famous journey, a visit to the center is a must.
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Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, situated amidst rolling hills in Crow Agency, Montana pays tribute to those who died during Custer's Last Stand in 1876.
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The Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, under the auspices of Montana State University, has the largest collection of American dinosaur bones in the world.
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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark traveled through Montana many times on their journey across North America, navigating huge sections of the Missouri River.
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At Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry battled bands of Northern Plains Indians -- Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho -- trying to preserve their ancestral way of life.
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Custer's Native American adversaries at Little Bighorn were Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Custer, along with several hundred American soldiers and a number of Native American warriors, were killed during his famous Last Stand.
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Virginia City was built during the Gold Rush of the 19th century when about $30 million in gold was panned from local rivers and streams. It was preserved in the 1940s and today is a popular tourist attraction with more than 100 historic buildings.
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Tyrannosaurus rex, Apatosaurus and Triceratops all thrived in Montana until climate changes ended their existence. You can hear all about it at Bozeman's Museum of the Rockies
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In the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, you can see the largest dinosaur fossil skull in the world, belonging to a nine-foot Torosaurus.
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Visitors to Virginia City, Montana can take a stagecoach ride around town, pan for gold and see how the original "goldiggers" lived in a Gold Rush boomtown.
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