Little Big Horn Battlefield--May 22, 2010

It was a long drive, but we broke it up by stopping at a small cafe for breakfast just outside the campground then stopped at a Montana visitor center where she directed Bob and Marvin to a little store in the next small town for some ice cream. That managed to get us to an area where they were working on the road and one of the pieces of the equipment had to be pulled out of the mud and there was also an accident. We also saw turkeys and pronghorned antelope.

The Battlefield museum was very good and so was the video they showed before we went onto the field. The whole area was very impressive. There is a national cemetery on the property where the soldiers were buried. There is even an area where their horses were buried. One horse survived and it is stuffed and in the High Plains Museum.

My grandfather worked for the railroad just outside where the Battlefield is located in the early 1900's in a town called Crow Agency so we tried to go there but after talking to some people from there and finding that the railroad station was no longer there and the heavens opened and it began raining we went own, but if all goes well on the way home we will try again. But in the museum at the Battlefield we saw a pistol like he had. According to my brother he obtained an 1861 Colt 36 ball and cap revolver from a cowboy in trade for a ticket somewhere.The Burlington Northern/Santa Fe still goes thru there. We are staying the night in Billings, Montana. The drive to Billings was beautiful as usual. The area was rimmed by the Beartooth Mountains and the Absaroka Range.