[Badeye]

‘I consider myself a history buff, even to the extent of traveling to Europe and Little Big Horn, to lay the Mark I eyeballs on the terrain.’

Its one of my goals to travel the West, and get to the Little Big Horn sometime in the next few years. I’ve been told its ‘way out in the middle of nowhere’....which means its pretty much as it was when Custer made his fatal errors in judgement.

[investigateworld]

(Thread wander notice: :^)

I recommend it. Once you get to the Monument, you can see how that ridge hid the bulk of the Indian encampment.

But the size of the horse herd, which could be seen, should have been a clue to Custer to rethink his plans.

[Verginius Rufus]

The Little Bighorn battlefield site is just off of Interstate 90, so it isn't quite in the middle of nowhere.

If you want the middle of nowhere, visit Bears Paw battlefield in northern Montana (south of Chinook), where Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce Indians were forced to surrender in 1877...very isolated and evocative place.