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re: 142 years ago today
Posted on 6/26/22 at 12:15 am to Globetrotter747
Posted on 6/26/22 at 12:15 am to Globetrotter747
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I’ve been to Little Bighorn. Pretty out there.
It's pretty, but there is also something eerie about that place. I went last summer and it wasn't very crowded at all. I remember having parts of the battlefield to myself basically, and just standing still with no sound other than the wind whispering through the tall grass. Do you know how people describe how their vision can narrow? I felt that, but with my hearing, the ONLY thing I could hear standing on the ridgeline was that grass just swishing all around me. It makes you wonder, was this same sound what Custer and his men heard as the life drained out of them on top of that hill? I honestly don't know how to describe it because I've never experienced anything like it, not even at Gettysburg. There was a palpable energy to the place. It felt...restless. Just thinking about it now makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
Here are some pics from that day:
This post was edited on 6/26/22 at 12:40 am
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Posted on 6/26/22 at 10:51 am to weaveballs1
We happened to stop by the battlefield on an anniversary of the battle. We got there too late for the re-enactment, but the Indian re-enactors had their teepees down next to the river and their horses hobbled. It was an eerie place and it's easy to see how you could be in one spot and never realize there were hundreds of people just over the next hill.
We stopped at the gas station across the street and I started talking to the Crow Indian at the counter. He told me there was a pow-wow out back and that we should check it out. The re-enactors had a big bonfire going and were dancing around it. Lots of of Indians around. It was pretty cool, but it kind of spooked my pale face wife.
We stopped at the gas station across the street and I started talking to the Crow Indian at the counter. He told me there was a pow-wow out back and that we should check it out. The re-enactors had a big bonfire going and were dancing around it. Lots of of Indians around. It was pretty cool, but it kind of spooked my pale face wife.
This post was edited on 6/26/22 at 10:52 am
Posted on 6/26/22 at 1:05 pm to weaveballs1
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the ONLY thing I could hear standing on the ridgeline was that grass just swishing all around me
quote:Nah, they probably heard gunshots, Indian war chants and white men screaming.
was this same sound what Custer and his men heard as the life drained out of them on top of that hill?
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