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Images from Today. Little Bighorn.
GuvamintCheese
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tom
how much do they want for that 1849 colt????[:p]
tom
It wont even fire, probably $100 would get it.
hard to imagine crossing this vast country on foot or horse when many now can't make it in a vehicle on good roads, fast food, and gps without several corrections....
It is the fast food that causes the problems.
Thanks for taking the time to share the pics!
No problem. We have a 3 hour drive to bozeman and its easy texting this with no traffic.
Shes driving. [;)][:D]
Heres a photo taken not long after while the govt cleaned up the battlefield.
This is where cemetary now sits
He told me that when General Custer was buried, he shared a grave with his brother Tom. Both men were laid on a shelter half, an empty 45-70 brass casing with their names was placed in their mouths and another shelter half covered the bodies and then dirt.
A year later a detail was sent to the sight to recover the bodies of the officers. The bodies of the enlisted men were placed in a common grave.
The day book report for that day shows that a single body was recovered from a single grave and identified as George Custer. It was removed to the cemetery at West Point were it resides to this day.
It would be ironic if an enlisted man rests in General Custer's grave at West Point and General Custer lies with his man on the hill of the Greasy Grass.
it is a sight to see,very sobering
Only place I've been that affected me worse, was the Murrow building in OKC. We won't even go there. It was bad.
Glad you made it there; you will remember it always! The heat you experienced today would be about the same as the troopers experienced on June 25-26, 1876.
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
It looks just like it did the last time I was there; kind of choked me up again!
Glad you made it there; you will remember it always! The heat you experienced today would be about the same as the troopers experienced on June 25-26, 1876.
Thank you. Spot on as usual.
Red Lodge is a fun little town, for a tourist town.
All that country, from Yellowstone to Sheridan, and up into Montana, is good country. The Big Horns, Pryors, Beartooths; just good country. Enjoy your drive!
Custer was an egotistical moron though IMO.
Great photos! How did you like The Bear tooth Highway?It seems like a bazillion years ago now, but I remember Charles Kuralt on one of his "On The Road" shows saying that the most beautiful drive in America was the drive from Red Lodge over the Beartooth Highway into Yellowstone. So, one vacation we went up through the Black Hills, Devil's Tower, Custer Battlefield, and on to Red Lodge where we spent the night and made that drive starting a little after daylight the next day. Wow, he was right, thank you Charles!!!!! Although, my wife being just a little afraid of heights and shear drop-offs, saw very little after we got into the mountains!!!!!!
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
Damn a .31 Colt recovered from the battlefield! I wonder who it belonged to.
It was an anachronism by then as the troopers were issued the 1873 Peacemaker.
There have been some changes since I was there; the boardwalk at Last Stand Hill, and the wrought iron Indian sculptures.
Like someone said, it felt like electricity coming from the ground there.
I could feel the ghosts.
I am really drawn to this place, partly because I was born in Billings.
Got to get back up there and check it out again.
Great pics, thanks for posting!
Damn a .31 Colt recovered from the battlefield! I wonder who it belonged to.
It was an anachronism by then as the troopers were issued the 1873 Peacemaker.
There have been some changes since I was there; the boardwalk at Last Stand Hill, and the wrought iron Indian sculptures.
Like someone said, it felt like electricity coming from the ground there.
I could feel the ghosts.
I am really drawn to this place, partly because I was born in Billings.
Got to get back up there and check it out again.
The old cap and ball revolver probably was dropped by one of the Indians, since it would have been outdated by then for cavalry issue.