A week before the Battle of the Little Bighorn in the summer of 1876, a much larger and longer battle raged in the hilly country on the Rosebud River 40 miles away.
A worker at the Rosebud Mine in Colstrip is dwarfed by the 60-cubic-yard bucket on one of the three drag lines that operate constantly at the mine in this 2014 photo. MICHAEL GALLACHER, Missoulian Tom ...