June 2023
We knew that we had come to Sheridan for a reason but couldn’t remember what so, after 4 hectic days, took it easy with a local walk over downs which could have been in the south of England, had it not been for the warnings of rattle snakes and the imposing peaks to the West. Dora got an overdue oil change and we caught up on paperwork. Where Custer fell. The Indian markers were added later On Friday the 2 nd , North again to Bozeman, Montana. Our route took us close to the Little Big Horn, so we stopped off to see the hill where George Armstrong Custer met his end. We managed the timing well and arrived just in time for a ranger talk. These are generally good but this one was exceptional: he was a journalist and knew how to tell the tale. We were enthralled for 40 minutes. Let’s just say that the story you know isn’t all of it. The battlefield is supposedly the only one in the world where an attempt has been made to pla...