Montana

Indian Memorial Little Bighorn Battlefield

October 7, 2011

Vicki and I have visited the Little Bighorn Battlefield many times – and in many weathers.  On this particular visit the sky was stormy and the wind just kept picking up. We walked across the street from Last Stand Hill and the Cavalry Monument (an obelisk up the hill from the Visitor’s Center) over to [...]

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Chateau de Mores, Medora, North Dakota

February 15, 2009

For those of you who have not had the opportunity to visit North Dakota, a destination not to be missed is the Chateau de Mores in Medora.  In 1883 the Marquis de Mores came to the badlands in western Dakota with the grand plan of making his fortune raising beef, dressing it and then sending [...]

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Historic Trips for Families

December 22, 2008

Your kids may have heard about the Oregon Trail, but have you taken them to stand in those wagon wheel tracks in Wyoming (photo at right)? So many wagons traversed West that the tracks are deep enough for an adult person to stand in. Even as an adult I was awe stuck by this fact; [...]

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Ft. Union, New Mexico, on the Santa Fe Trail

December 8, 2008

Fort Union was established in 1851 as the guardian of the Santa Fe Trail. During it’s forty-year history, three different forts were constructed close together. The third Fort Union was the largest in the American Southwest, and functioned as a military garrison, territorial arsenal, and military supply depot for the southwest. The largest visible network [...]

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Little Big Horn Battlefield

December 2, 2008

In the spring and summer of 1876 the United States Government launched a military campaign upon a portion of the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, who refused to live within the boundaries of the Great Sioux Reservation. They chose to continue their traditional nomadic way of life. The campaign was initiated when a Government ultimatum to [...]

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Louis Philippe’s Diary of Travels in America

August 30, 2008

In 1796, the man who would become the king of France began a three and a half year journey through Europe and America. Louis-Philippe, whose father had been guillotined, decided to see the world–and keep a diary of his travels, Diary of My Travels In America Louis-Philippe and his two younger brothers dined at Mount [...]

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