Jeff Kitchens, who’s managed the monument for the Bureau of Land Management since 2011, can deliver what he calls his “elevator talk” about Pompeys Pillar while standing at the monument’s ...

Pompeys Pillar National Monument will reopen for the season on Thursday, May 22, but the visitor center hours have been reduced as federal funding for staffing has been cut. Site access will be ...

Jeff Kitchens talked about Pompey's Pillar National Monument and why the site was so important to the growth of Billings, Montana. Pompey's Pillar is the only site existing today that shows ...

Pompeys Pillar National Monument is a massive sandstone outcrop that rises from an almost two-acre base on the banks of the Yellowstone River 150 feet toward Montana’s Big Sky, east of Billings. The ...

A Minnesota man is apologizing for defacing a national monument in Montana. Cole Randall, of Plymouth, told investigators he carved “Cole + Shpresa 10/10/2013” into Pompeys Pillar National ...

Recognizing the significance of the site, in 1965 the pillar was granted National Historic Landmark status. Since the 1990s it has been managed by the Bureau of Land Management .

A Minnesota man is apologizing for defacing a national monument in Montana. Cole Randall, of Plymouth, told investigators he carved "Cole + Shpresa 10/10/2013" into Pompeys Pillar National ...

Graffiti spelling “Cole + Shpresa 10/10/2013” was carved into the Pompeys Pillar National Monument near the signature of Capt. William Clark.

The new marking on Pompeys Pillar National Monument is about 3 feet from the signature of Clark, a member of the Corps of […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 81°F.

BILLINGS -- A presidential signature turned Pompeys Pillar into a national monument in 2001. But decades before then, Billings collectors Don and Stella Foote helped save the West's rarest autograph.

BILLINGS — The Bureau of Land Management has identified Cole Randall as the man suspected of carving his name and the date at Pompeys Pillar National Monument last month.