Little Big Horn

Indian Memorial!
Handicapped Indian!

Current Residents of the Battlefield!

Where Custer and his two Companies died. Custer's stone is with the black. His grave is now at West Point!

Mass Grave!
Indian Memorial!
Indian Memorial!

Last Stand Hill!
Memorial!

These are pictures from the battlefield. There is a memorial to the Indians on the hill where the mass grave of the fallen soldiers is. A year after the battle they relocated the remains of the fallen soldiers to the monument on the hill. The officers graves were relocated to various locations and General Custer's body was moved to West Point.

Great Falls - Hardin Montana (Little Big Horn)

The first day out of Jasper we drove to Fort Macleod, Alberta. the campground was really small and to get Wi-Fi , we took a back in site closer to the office. It was a grass sight and when I put the jacks down, they went into the ground about nine inches. They had had a lot of rain and the ground was really soft. In spite of our move and all the trouble we had getting leveled, we still didn't have Internet.

The next day we traveled across central Montana (a very pretty ride) to Hardin, Montana. Hardin is at the edge of the Crow Indian Reservation and about ten miles from The Little Big Horn National Monument. The night we arrived we had a bad storm that brought quarter size hail. If you have ever been in a motorhome during a hail storm, you know that the sounds are very scary. We put the spotlight on and watched the ice bounce off the roof into our parking spot. When it started to get windy, we decided to put the slides in and that is how we spent the night. A very restless and scary night.

Little Bighorn was interesting. We were able to learn what happened during the battle and the Ranger talk brought a better understanding of the history that led up to this confrontation. I left there with the feeling that we really screwed the Indians out of their way of life.

Last night we had storms all around us but escaped the fury of the weather. The lightening north and south of us last night was unbelievable.

Today we drove through a little of Eastern Montana and through part of Eastern Wyoming into South Dakota. We are in a campground about ten miles from Mount Rushmore. Guess what? It's raining!! On the way through Wyoming I counted 43 antelope along the highway. We have been in a lot of the western states the past two years and Wyoming seems to be the choice of the antelope.

Tomorrow Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse Monument that is in the process of being built.

Life is Great!! Enjoy it!!