Little Bighorn Battlefield Trip

Wanting to do a little road trip with the family, we decided to visit what I had always called "Custer Battlefield". My aunt and uncle had taken me there as one of my stops at the age of 21 when driving cross country moving to Montana. That was over 20 years ago! It is now called Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument and is a National Cemetery.

A beautiful resting place containing so much history.

We went into the museum and viewed many different relics from Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer

and Sitting Bull.

I found the words of the president at this time in history (Ulysses S. Grant) to be very interesting as pictured here:

Sitting Bull "had a premonition of defeating the cavalry, which motivated his Native American people to a major victory at the Battle of the Little Bighorn against Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and the 7th Cavalry on June 25, 1876."

Also honored which I had not seen during my first visit over 20 years ago was the following:

My next blog will have the Indian Memorial at Little Bighorn Battlefield which was newly established in the early 1990's.

A Beautiful Inspiration

Digital ID: 1161045. [Head of the Statue of Liberty on display in a park in Paris.]. Fernique, Albert -- Photographer. 1883


Note the two "life-size" replicas of the Statue of Liberty on either side of the full-size head.

I would love to travel to this park in Paris and sit for a long while marveling at the beauty of this sculpture/monument.

I got to travel to Washington DC and New York on my senior trip in high school over 20 years ago. If I could go back, I wish that I had better camera equipment than the latest Kodak disk camera (short run life and not very good with pictures) of that time period.

Also, my one regret on the whole trip was not getting to tour the Statue of Liberty. It was 1986 when she was undergoing repairs and cleaning. The tours were totally closed for the one day we spent in New York.

Maybe someday I will get back that way again, but for now it will just go on a mental "Would Like To Do List".