We drove today from Billings, Montana to Buffalo, Wyoming. Enroute, we spent a few hours at the
Little Big Horn National Memorial. It's a beautiful park, and one of the only battles the USA has been in where they marked exactly where people fell/died. Everyone is buried either in a mass grave, taken "home" by the natives (for warriors), or in the case of Custer himself, buried at West Point - where he graduated. The battle grounds are littered with tiny white (for US Calvary and civilians) or red (for Native American) "grave" markers. I noticed that, over time, the story is becoming less US Calvary - centric and more balanced. The Native Americans give a pretty good tour which describes the avalanching mistakes made by the US Calvary, resulting is this bloody slaughter. Everyone under Custer's command died.
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