A Little History Lesson for Today

Ok, Bloggers, today we have a bit of a history lesson. Can anyone tell me where the Little Big Horn Battlefield is??? What happened on that land? Well, we learned a lot about it yesterday.
It is Thursday Morning, Sept 13 right now. We are in Sheridan Wyoming and the dinky little home town motel we are staying in has a very weak and slow signal so I won't be posting any pictures today. We have lots of great pics of the battlefield but it just takes forever to get anything done here so we are going to try to just type the post and we will post the pics at our next stop when hopefully we have a better signal.
The battlefield is in the southeast part of Montana between Billings, MT and Sheridan Wyoming. On this area (actually about 5 miles altogether) was where General George Armstrong Custer and his men were killed by a contingent of the Lakota Sioux and various other plains indian tribes. There were some survivors as Custer split up his command and not all were killed on Last Stand Hill with him. There was a great little museum where actual artifacts that had been retrieved from the battlefield are on display. There are small white markers dotted across about 5 miles of battlefield where calvarymen fell. These spots are verified by first hand testimony from both indian and calvary survivors. Also, archeologists have combed the entire area and recovered bones, snips of material from uniforms, watch pieces, various ammunition and other items lost on the battlefield that day. And that day, boys and girls, was only 130 years ago. It happened on June 25 and 26 in 1876. Pretty incredible to me that such a thing was only approximately 130 years ago.

The weather was very warm and the wind was blowing real hard. We both got windburn and I felt like I was drying out all over. I got back to the room and bathed myself in moisturizer to try to get my skin back!

We are in Sheridan Wyoming now and couldn't get a good signal last night to post this blog............sorry, Kevin LOL

This morning we are going south through Wyoming and planning to then go east through Nebraska then cut north to be in Sioux Falls South Dakota by Sunday. We get to see Nicole on Monday the 17th.

We will post yesterday's pictures of the battlefield tonight when we get a better signal. We also took a picture of this tiny tiny room we are in, I couldn't believe it is so small!!! I had to get a picture.

Note to Lisa: thanks for the email and comments on the blog. I hope all is well with you, I miss talking to you! We have not had cell phone signals
since we left Yellowstone. I am hoping it will get better today.

Note to Cathie: Thanks for your email too. It's fun knowing everyone is following our adventure! I answered your email last night but it didn't actually go through until this morning. I hope you got it.

Note to Kevin: No, we won't get too tired and we are driving very carefully (Wayne is doing most of the driving LOL) . We can't wait for the trip with you. I can't let myself think about it, it is so exciting to think I will actually get to see the inside of Graceland! Wow!

Another Note to Kevin and to Mom: Do you remember exactly where Dad was born? I remember he and Grandma talking about Gandy and/or Stapleton Nebraska, but not sure. We will be in Nebraska tomorrow and thought we would look up the area where they lived.

Note to Everyone: Thanks for following our blog. We are so excited about this trip, you just cannot imagine. We are seeing such beautiful and new things that simply go beyond words. We have had incredible good luck everywhere we have gone and have no complaints about anything. (Well, this room is a bit much but oh well)

Talk to you all again tonight.......Love to All
Wayne and Colleen