Custer's Last Stand

...or if you prefer, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull's glorious victory. We visited the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in southeast Montana. It's a pretty place with rolling grassy hills, a verdant valley floor and distant snowy mountains. It's also a solemn place. People there walked slowly and talked quietly out of respect for the dead on both sides and maybe some sadness that the Indian tribes eventually lost their traditional way of life.

As it turns out, the battle took place exactly 141 years ago on June 25-26, 1876. I'm glad I got to see it.