Thanks Red Badger.
Posted on 08/08/2024 12:32:29 PM PDT by Red Badger
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The person who donated this diary probably had many conversations with the man who wrote it.
A military expedition brings along fly rods for fishing?
Live off the land..............
Do you like to eat? They did, too!
More likely they were told what to expect and tried sport fishing.
Better that it remain in Wyoming where it has been instead of a DC museum where it could be in danger one day of being white racism aggressive and destroyed like all the statues there.
Interesting article. Wife and I visited the battlefield in 1977 exactly 100 years after Forsyth’s visit. Still rugged country. Later on a fire swept through the area revealing many previously hidden .44 Henry rimfire cartridge cases used by the Indians. So the 7th Cavalry’s single shot Springfield 45-70 rifles and carbines were no match for the Indian’s repeating lever action Henry rifles.
Totally agree. This is not our great grandfather’s America anymore.
Bkmk
Great story! Thanks for posting.
My wife had relatives that lived in Thermop for years. This diary deserves to stay there.
I’m moving there in a few weeks. Beautiful area, and it’s like it has a little bit of Yellowstone sitting on the east bank of the Wind River with the hot springs and rock formations there. It’s also centrally located to get to all the mountain ranges around Wyoming, which I look forward to hiking again as often as I can manage it.
And gave him and his pals the opportunity to kill everything in sight, apparently...
Thanks Red Badger.
I hiked to the top of Cloud Peak when I was 19. That shear cliff is on the east side IIRC. I spent some time looking at the view over that cliff to the east.
Until the clouds came racing in from the west and caught me by surprise. I ran/hopped/jumped down the mountain - heading west and got maybe 200 feet off below the peak. I tossed my metal framed pack under one boulder, ran to another boulder to squat under as the thunder boomed, the rocks rang, and my hair stood on end. I don’t recall how long it lasted - not too long, perhaps 20 minutes? But long enough!
Yow!
I just finished reading “Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee,” so I’d love to get my hands on this journal. What a document!
I was going to say, how else can they live? They certainly didn’t have canned fish from the supermarket in those days.
‘Face
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