Fort Custer was established during the Indian wars in the Department of Dakota by the U.S. Army to subjugate the Sioux Cheyenne and Crow Indians near present-day Hardin Montana. The post was named for General George Armstrong Custer who died at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
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