{"id":5464,"date":"2017-09-11T10:41:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T14:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=5464"},"modified":"2019-03-05T17:32:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T22:32:19","slug":"little-bighorn-battlefield-national-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/11\/little-bighorn-battlefield-national-monument\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Last<\/a>

Last Stand markers (the dark one is Custer’s place of death)<\/p><\/div>\n

Yesterday Jett and I went a few miles up I-90 to visit the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument<\/a>, site of “Custer’s Last Stand.” I wasn’t quite sure what to expect but what we found was a remarkably well-preserved battlefield with markers for the locations where soldiers’ bodies were found after the battle, plus a few markers where notable Indians were found as well. A 5-mile dead-end road with informative signs along the way connected the Last Stand site with the site where the survivors beat back the Indians for two days.<\/p>\n

There was a haze from wildfires that prevented seeing some distant points – most notably the Crow’s Nest where Custer camped the night before the battle – but the stark beauty of the place was not compromised.<\/p>\n

We started with a 30-minute lecture on the battle from a National Park Service employee that was very informative and ended with a short hike up the hill to view the monument and the markers for the 211 men – including Custer – that were killed in the Last Stand.<\/p>\n

There were three horse-related events worthy of note. First, we were surprised to find free-range horses along the roadway. We asked about them and learned that they were horses belonging to a local rancher who just let them graze freely. Second, there was a marker near the Last Stand memorial that commemorated the role of the horses in the battle and marked a common grave for all horse bones found on the battlefield. Finally, when we left the park we went a mile north to Crow Agency, the capital of the Crow Reservation, and were surprised to find a horse wandering freely through the town.<\/p>\n

After Crow Agency we returned to the Last Stand Caf\u00e9 across from the park entrance to have a bite. I decided to try the “Indian taco” which is traditional taco ingredients piled on top of Indian fried bread – something similar to fried dough, but not so sweet. Delicious!<\/p>\n

\"Free-range<\/a>

Free-range horses<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Looking<\/a>

Looking down at the Little Bighorn<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Marker<\/a>

Marker at the survivor site<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Fallen<\/a>

Fallen soldiers at Calhoun’s Hill<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Horse<\/a>

Horse grave<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Last<\/a>

Last Stand memorial<\/p><\/div>\n

\"One-horse<\/a>

One-horse town<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Indian<\/a>

Indian taco<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Jett and I went a few miles up I-90 to visit the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, site of “Custer’s Last Stand.” I wasn’t quite sure what to expect but what we found was a remarkably well-preserved battlefield with markers for the locations where soldiers’ bodies were found after the battle, plus a few … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,73,4,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-places-mt","category-places","category-stw"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-1q8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5464"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7544,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464\/revisions\/7544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}