Little Big Horn and Rosebud

These photos...top to bottom.... national cemetery for US soldiers (native Americans moved all of there dead to tribal sites) spot where Custer was killed, though his remains were relocated to Arlington DC and the Rosebud Battle site....2 weeks before last stand battle.

All of the years I have been dabbling in history, all of those days in classrooms, and I still don't understand all of the versions of Custer's last stand. The evidence suggests that he was a pompous racist who was looking for a big win. That said, a lot of good people did fight in that battle and a lot died. I just don't like the glorification of Custer. It was not until the 1990's that the battle field's name was changed from the Custer Battlefield National Park to the Little Big Horn National Park. Ok, enough of that.
On the way to Little Big Horn (which is also called Greasy Grass, or Crow Agency) I stopped at a post office in Busby MT to get some stamps. The clerk asked where I was coming from and going to. He then explained that I had to visit Rosebud before before Little Big Horn. Rosebud is a battlefield about 50 miles from Little Big Horn where a battle took place about two weeks before Little Big Horn. It was supposed to be the warning to both sides that things were not good. The clerk, whose name was Doug, was also determined to tell me that his wife's relatives fought in both battles on the winning side. Fair enough. I told him I would post it.

Little Big Horn is another one of these eerie monuments to battles. It is very quiet and well maintained, but, again like Gettysburg, you can feel the death and pain of the battle everywhere when you walk the trails. Another good recommendation by Steve F.