The bank where the Sundance Kid made an unauthorized withdrawal
Red Lodge

The beautiful motel where we stayed in Hardin

Hay field

Pompey's Pilllar

William Clark's signature on Pompey's Pillow

Figures at Little Big Horn

Marker showing where an Indian was killed

In memory of all the horses that were killed. One, Comanche, survived

Memorial to the fallen soldiers. They have been dug up from where they were originally buried and are now buried at the base of this memorial

Each marker represents where a soldier was killed. The one with the black face is Custer's

Sign at the base of the memorial

Thursday we drove over the Bear Tooth Mountain to Red Lodge. I nodded off for most of the way while Nancy drove. I had hardly slept the night before.
We had a delicious lunch and the scenery was outstanding - a good looking man at the table next to us! We saw a bank where the Sundance Kid made an unauthorized withdrawal!
We drove to Hardin, MT where we had reservations to spend the night. When we saw the motel we kept saying, “Oh, no!” We knew we would lose our money if we went to another place so we decided to check it out. The room wasn’t bad at all, it was just the outside that was awful. I was up in the room when Nancy called out, “Is this your toothbrush in the parking lot?” I looked down and there was my toothbrush in the middle of the lot. Thankfully I bought two new ones at Walmart that afternoon.
There weren’t many places in town to eat so we ended up at some Mexican place in a Casino.

Friday we drove north to Pompey’s Pillar which was named by William Clark (Lewis and Clark) for Jean Baptiste (Sacagawea’s son.) Pomp means Little Chief in Shoshoni. You could still see where Clark engraved his name into this outcropping of rock. There was a wonderful film at the Visitor’s Center.
We headed south to see where the Battle of Little Big Horn was fought and saw another excellent film. The men have all been dug up and reburied but there is a marker where each was killed. Custer was taken back to West Point and buried there.

We went south again to Rosebud where Gen George Crook was attacked and forced to turn back after a six hour battle. This place is also know as the “The girl who saved her brother” because an Indian girl rode into battle on her horse and saved her brother. We thought this place was pretty much of a bust. We shouldn't have taken the time to see it because it made us get back to Mammoth really late.

On our was home we went over Granite Pass which we think is the prettiest place we have seen so far. We drove on to Cody, not arriving until 8 p.m. We finally got back to Mammoth at 11:30. There is never enough time to do all the things we want to do.