Town of Garryowen, Montana for sale for $6.5 million

January 25, 2008

The town of Garryowen http://www.historicalrarities.com/garryowen.htm , home to the privately owned Custer Battlefield Museum http://www.custermuseum.org/ , is to be auctioned this spring with a starting bid of $6.5 million, a Dallas-based auction house said.

''This sale is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be an integral part of American history and to own the most famous privately held historic real estate in America,'' Gary Hendershott, consignment director for Heritage Auction Galleries http://www.ha.com/ wrote in a letter included with a draft sales brochure.

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