American Inn Hardin

We left sheridan and headed north, we wanted to go to the Battle of little Big horn, where Custer meet his demise. The national parks guide  gave a great talk about the battle and small monuments or head stones are  place on the field of battle where the participants died. 

... It is just unbelieveable that history was right in this place. They errected a monument 5 years after the battle and moved all the 200+ dead soldiers in a common grave under the monument. There are markers all over the area that marked where the soldiers had died (The men who buried the dead stuck teepee sticks in the ground and put a bullet cartridge on top with a piece of paper in it with their name). It ...

... Apparently KOA started in Billings, Montana.

The campground is sandwiched in beetween wheat and sugar beet fields. It is a picture of American country life. It almost feels as if Superman would descend here onto a farm, like in the movie.

Tomorrow we will continue East to Custer National Park.

Until then see ya!!!!

... the devostation all over the mountains from the wild fires (from the Sierras all the way to here)
Had lunch in Billings and hit the road again. Then, we discovered this absolute treasure - Big Horn County Historical Museum - this is a MUST! www.museumonthebighorn.org
It is a historic town to put it simple - all the buildings are original historic buildings with a story. The farm house and the barn are on the original site, other buildings were moved there - school ...

... through the park which is totally in the Crow Indian Reservation. We were hoping to see some more bison and even some bighorn sheep, but didn't see anything but cattle and one mule deer. We had a nice picnic (we usually pack a cooler with lunch) in the park. Back at the coach, we caught up on email and phone calls before dinner.

We actually had a nice sunny day where temperatures reached into the 70s. That's the way it is supposed to be.

From Williston to Hardin was a long enough trip that by the time we checked in at the RV park and hooked up, it was mid-afternoon even with gaining an hour entering Mountain Time Zone. We spent the rest of the afternoon in the coach with desk and computer work -- like getting this blog ready to send.

We woke this morning to a winter wonderland! Our campers, the ground and the hillsides were covered with a thin blanket of snow. We visited the visitor centre which advised that some of the park roads were closed, thus spoiling our opportunity to visit some of the features including the Yellowstone canyon and the mud volcano on our way out of the park. We decided to backtrack to Livingstone and then make our way to Hardin where we plan to ...

... suite de la journée, Little Big Horn est resté célèbre pour la victoire du chef sioux Sitting Bull sur le général Custer ( voir les films Little Big Man avec Dustin Hoffman et Danse avec les loups qui ont été tournés dans le coin). Chaque année s'y déroule la « Crow Fair », énorme réunion d'indiens de différentes régions qui se retrouvent pour des rodéos, des parades et des pow wow (danses). Nous nous retrouvons donc au milieu de milliers de Tepees, de ...

... been preserved and the location of the Stockade and the buildings within the 10 acre site have been marked out. The stockade walls have been re-established in each corner and a short section along the entrance where the information centre is located. To absorb the history about this fort and the raids and success the Indians had in harassing the timber gatherers creating the biggest defeat up to that time (we mentioned this before) by the US army. Certainly an interesting site to ...

... stone plaques, we were told it was "just a bullhead" not sure if this should have reassured us or not? Then whilst out on the farthest part of the battlefield, we were intent on looking out for the points of interest in our tour guide booklet, when there came a very pronounced rattling sound on the ground to our right. Betsy froze and I turned round to see that I had just passed within 18" of a rattlesnake. This had spooked it and it was ...