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Custer & the War Between the States

by | Sep 25, 2010 | Features & Gunfights

Montana and Wyoming duke it out over a famous Custer battlefield painting.
Montana artist Edgar S. Paxson’s painting Custer’s Last Stand is a gripping depiction of the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn. Yet unknown to most viewers, another battle lurks behind this oil on canvas: a battle between the Montana Historical Society in Helena and the Whitney Gallery of Western Art in Cody, Wyoming, for possession of the paintin


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