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SouthSide Johnny

September 17, 2015, 11:04:59 am
Little Bighorn Battlefield
Some Say it's Raining Elephants but They Go Outside Anyway..

SouthSide Johnny

September 17, 2015, 11:10:07 am #1
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Some Say it's Raining Elephants but They Go Outside Anyway..
 

SouthSide Johnny

September 17, 2015, 11:39:39 am #2
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Some Say it's Raining Elephants but They Go Outside Anyway..

Grizzlyfan

September 18, 2015, 10:43:47 am #3
I love Wyoming and Montana.  Have you been to the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody?  Driven the Beartooth Highway?

SouthSide Johnny

September 18, 2015, 10:58:54 am #4
Quote from: Grizzlyfan on September 18, 2015, 10:43:47 am
I love Wyoming and Montana.  Have you been to the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody?  Driven the Beartooth Highway?

I was born in Cheyenne and also lived in Great Falls way back when,  This summer I went through Cody (great town and fantastic Museum, Yellowstone, Red Lodge, Bear Tooth going to Seattle area to see family came back through Montana, Deadwood, Rushmore area and Dodge City..

First time I drove it in about 35 years, I was just amazed and forgot about the vast wide open spaces (still) and beauty of the country. I would move back to the area in a heart beat, my wife just says come back and visit when you can I'm staying here!

I took about 2500 pictures on the 4 week trip.
Some Say it's Raining Elephants but They Go Outside Anyway..

Boarcephus

September 18, 2015, 02:29:42 pm #5
Love the pics.  Once we retire next year this place is on my bucket list and has been for years. 
I need to be more like my dog...if you can't fight it, screw it, or eat it, then piss on it.

SouthSide Johnny

September 18, 2015, 04:45:25 pm #6
Not a very big place and kinda middle of no where But well worth the visit, they have a small museum there and the Park Interpreter was excellent!  The beauty of the land there is breathtaking. Cody and Buffalo Bill Museum is excellent! biggest collection of firearms from all eras I've ever seen. Cody is about 2 1/2 hours from the Battlefield.

Some Say it's Raining Elephants but They Go Outside Anyway..

SouthSide Johnny

September 18, 2015, 04:51:45 pm #7
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Some Say it's Raining Elephants but They Go Outside Anyway..

ErieHog

September 18, 2015, 07:55:29 pm #8
One thing I don't think people who haven't visited these Western battlefields appreciate, is how much and wide the space is, and how sight lines affected things.

There are engagements that were on as big a geographic scope as any Civil War battlefield,  but among much smaller parties, often.
No cause, ever, in the history of all mankind, has produced more cold-blooded tyrants, more slaughtered innocents, and more orphans than socialism with power. It surpassed, exponentially, all other systems of production in turning out the dead. The bodies are all around us. And here is the problem: No one talks about them. No one honors them. No one does penance for them. No one has committed suicide for having been an apologist for those who did this to them. No one pays for them. No one is hunted down to account for them. It is exactly what Solzhenitsyn foresaw in The Gulag Archipelago: "No, no one would have to answer. No one would be looked into." Until that happens, there is no "after socialism."

DeltaBoy

October 06, 2015, 10:22:47 am #9
The place where the arrogant Gen Custer let his EGO cost him and many good men's lives. 
If the South should lose, it means that the history of the heroic struggle will be written by the enemy, that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers, will be impressed by all of the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.
-- Major General Patrick Cleburne
The Confederacy had no better soldiers
than the Arkansans--fearless, brave, and oftentimes courageous beyond
prudence. Dickart History of Kershaws Brigade.

proffitthog

October 23, 2015, 02:12:10 pm #10
Thanks for posting the pics.

woodrow hog call

December 08, 2015, 10:17:41 am #11
Great pics, thanks for posting. I would love to go there someday and see all of that firsthand.
It's a sad aspect of our history, that we couldn't figure out a better way of communicating and coexisting with each other back then.
"I hate rude behavior in a man, I won't tolerate it"

Inhogswetrust

December 30, 2015, 11:31:06 pm #12
Quote from: DeltaBoy on October 06, 2015, 10:22:47 am
The place where the arrogant Gen Custer let his EGO cost him and many good men's lives. 

True and it's really not that great a place to see unless you are a history buff for that timeframe.
If I'm going to cheer players and coaches in victory, I damn sure ought to be man enough to stand with them in defeat.

"Why some people are so drawn to the irrational is something that has always puzzled me" - James Randi
 

Pulled(PP)pork

December 31, 2015, 11:27:15 am #13
do they do reenactments?


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SouthSide Johnny

January 01, 2016, 09:00:41 am #14
Quote from: Inhogswetrust on December 30, 2015, 11:31:06 pm
True and it's really not that great a place to see unless you are a history buff for that timeframe.

Don't be a Moron..
Some Say it's Raining Elephants but They Go Outside Anyway..

SouthSide Johnny

January 01, 2016, 09:02:17 am #15
Some Say it's Raining Elephants but They Go Outside Anyway..

Pulled(PP)pork

January 01, 2016, 12:25:41 pm #16
Quote from: SouthSide Johnny on January 01, 2016, 09:02:17 am
Yes next one is June 24-26, 2016

http://www.littlebighornreenactment.com/
hmmm, and some on here are against the civil war reenactments


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SouthSide Johnny

January 01, 2016, 05:53:28 pm #17
Quote from: Pulled(PP)pork on January 01, 2016, 12:25:41 pm
hmmm, and some on here are against the civil war reenactments


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Well you know, some people... Pea Ridge National Park has a real good Civil War Battle reenactment, that is very educational and period correct. One of the best views I've ever seen in my life is looking over the bluff of Robert Lee's house in Arlington. It's educational and IS History.  Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn has a excellent section on the Civil War era, slavery and civil rights movement. They also have a Civil War Remembrance 2 day event.

Ford Museum and Greenfield Village next door are exceptional, Smithsonian exceptional and More, I also enjoy and seen several American Revolutionary War reenactments, guess they are offensive to some also... Guess they get offended by looking in the mirror each morning also.
Some Say it's Raining Elephants but They Go Outside Anyway..

Pulled(PP)pork

January 01, 2016, 05:56:45 pm #18
Quote from: SouthSide Johnny on January 01, 2016, 05:53:28 pm
Well you know, some people... Pea Ridge National Park has a real good Civil War Battle reenactment, that is very educational and period correct. One of the best views I've ever seen in my life is looking over the bluff of Robert Lee's house in Arlington. It's educational and IS History.  Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn has a excellent section on the Civil War era, slavery and civil rights movement. They also have a Civil War Remembrance 2 day event.

Ford Museum and Greenfield Village next door are exceptional, Smithsonian exceptional and More, I also enjoy and seen several American Revolutionary War reenactments, guess they are offensive to some also... Guess they get offended by looking in the mirror each morning also.
oh, I agree with you.....just some will argue that we are honoring a bunch of turncoats, ones who lost and don't deserve it


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Porquemada

January 31, 2016, 12:26:00 am #19 Last Edit: January 31, 2016, 11:41:30 pm by Porquemada
Drove across Wyoming north around the Devils  Tower on my way to Yellowstone and back across the bottom to get back to Denver. Loved it.

DeltaBoy

March 04, 2016, 11:09:03 am #20
As Les said Little Bighorn is where dreams came to die.
If the South should lose, it means that the history of the heroic struggle will be written by the enemy, that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers, will be impressed by all of the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.
-- Major General Patrick Cleburne
The Confederacy had no better soldiers
than the Arkansans--fearless, brave, and oftentimes courageous beyond
prudence. Dickart History of Kershaws Brigade.

whippersnapper

March 28, 2016, 02:39:48 pm #21
Got to stop by and see Little Bighorn on my way back from Asotria this summer. I tried to imagine being in the moment hearing thousands of horses coming at you. Knowing death was your only escape.  Very beautiful area.

JIMMY BOARFFETT

March 28, 2016, 02:55:10 pm #22
I've always wondered, in country that vast, how they ever found each other to get into a fight.
My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.

DLUXHOG

March 28, 2016, 03:02:40 pm #23
Quote from: Grizzlyfan on September 18, 2015, 10:43:47 am
I love Wyoming and Montana.  Have you been to the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody?  Driven the Beartooth Highway?
I've driven the Beartooth Highway... it's crookeder than a dog's hind leg.........
"Don't go in anyplace you'd be ashamed to die in..."
(you might get this someday)
 

DeltaBoy

April 06, 2016, 09:09:57 am #24
Quote from: JIMMY BOARFFETT on March 28, 2016, 02:55:10 pm
I've always wondered, in country that vast, how they ever found each other to get into a fight.

Both parties wanted to kill the other so they had scouts out trying to find the other.
If the South should lose, it means that the history of the heroic struggle will be written by the enemy, that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers, will be impressed by all of the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.
-- Major General Patrick Cleburne
The Confederacy had no better soldiers
than the Arkansans--fearless, brave, and oftentimes courageous beyond
prudence. Dickart History of Kershaws Brigade.
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