Evianah Dickerson was the owner of Reese, a 1 and a half year old pit bull. Reese was fatally shot by a Columbus police officer.

The Bozeman-based actor is playing the legendary Lakota leader in History's two-part series "Sitting Bull," premiering Tuesday and Wednesday. For him, the connection was more than worth the challenge.

The expansion permits Signal Peak Energy to extract nearly 60 million tons of coal from the Bull Mountains mine north of Billings.