GARRYOWEN AND THE BATTLEFIELD

Sept 28th

We arrive at the 7th Ranch RV camp in GarryOwen Wyoming. The ride here was beautiful coming over the bighorn Mts.-I know it was a little hairy for Mike to drive our "house" over-but we both really respected and enjoyed the scenery and the history we saw. We settled into our spot-our friends that we had met in Cody were already camping above us-so they came down and said "hey" and we heard about their day and sights. Tonight we would just be home and have an early eve-it was a long drive here! The sun started to set-and we knew right away this would be no ordinary sunset-something about the sky-we did not know-but it was like there was some sort of illumination all around the the sun like nothing we have ever seen-it was fantastic! We made a cocktail and just sat and enjoyed it til it was totally gone-wow! below our camp runs the train-and the cows and horses too-the train sound was nice-just enough in the distance to be romantic and not loud-a large group of horses just ran accross the field below-it is really a nice place to be tonight!

Sept. 29

Today we went to see where the battle of Little BigHorn took place-actually the whole skyline of our camp is the battlefield-rather awe inspiring! we are camped right on the LittleBigHorn river-so much history is here. the actual battlefield is about 5 miles down the road-and we get there early to have the day to explore.
We first see the National cemetery-then we go up to the visitor center-and museum.
we can see some of the battlefield from here-we wait for the ranger to come outside and talk to us. It is a beautiful sunny,but cool morning-the ranger starts laying out the scenes for us-he is great1 pretty soon we can see the whole battle taking place before us. He points to land accross the river-and over the hills-we are in awe just knowing where we are sitting-we get the whole story of what happened at that famous battle-at least to the best of what history and evidence can tell us.
When the ranger is done with his lesson-we walk up to the area known as "last stand hill" there we see where Gen Custers body was recovered-they have made a mass grave of soldiers and civilians whose bodies were recovered in the area-but not officially identified. Custer and some of the officers were later moved-Custer being moved to WestPoint. It was a pretty cool day-I learned a lot-more than I took the time to listen to in school about the whole ordeal! Mike is a huge history fan-it is great hearing about some of these historical recounts from him!
Tomorrow we will be heading to South Dakota.