Montana's largest town, Billings, lies in the south, and is a good base for visits to the Little Bighorn battle field and the Crow Indian Reservation, where the five-day Crow Fair is held every year in August.
Here, in the Crow Reservation, the United States Army suffered its greatest defeat at the hands of the Sioux and Cheyennes. On June 25th
1876 a detachment of the 7th United States Cavalry commanded by George Armstrong Custer attacked a larger Indian force led by Crazy Horse and was annihilated. On the battlefield are a museum, a military cemetery and a monument commemorating Custer's last stand, erected on the spot where he fell.