Custer Lives!
Last Stand Hill At The Little Big Horn Battlefield
In late July 2008 I arrived at the Battle of The Little Big Horn determined to walk the battlefield in the sequence it unfolded. I failed miserably. I could not resist the temptation to go to Last Stand Hill first. There I felt a sense of awe and sadness. Standing at the very spot that forever changed the American West I envisioned the events that took place here. I was at the Park very early and the silence and loneliness contrasting with the incredible violence that took place here was a feeling I shall long remember.
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Last Stand Hill as viewed from the north end of the Indian camp. This photo was taken outside the Little Big Horn Battlefield on privately owned land. |
Last Stand Hill as viewed while walking up the path from the Visitor Center. |
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Wooden Leg and other Indian Warriors fired on the doomed Troopers of the US 7th Cavalry on Last Stand Hill from this position. |
Last Stand Hill as viewed from Calhoun Hill. |
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The mass grave of the US 7th Cavalry. |
General George Armstrong Custer's marker is in the center of this photo. The General is alleged to have fallen at the position I took this photo from. |
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The marker in the foreground is the US 7th Cavalry Horse mass grave. Lt Charles F Roe lead the US 2nd Cavalry in July 1881 on this detail. |
General George Armstrong Custer's initial burial site and marker. The General is now at West Point, the US Military Academy. |
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