Feeding the History Junkie

Campbell loves anything to do with history. It's her favorite subject in school. We like to take every opportunity we can to feed this addiction of hers.

The first weekend in August I had to go up Montana to get my mom and my nephew. They are staying with us for about three weeks. Having grown up in MT and studied MT history I knew that there would surely be something that I could take her to see. I thought about going through the Lewis and Clark Caverns. Caleb is not a huge fan of tight, dark spaces though so that was out. I decided instead to take her to the Battle of the Little Big Horn Monument and Park. Some of you may know this better as Custer's Last Stand Battlefield.

I gave Campbell a brief history on our way to the Park. Once there, we first looked at the National Cemetary that is located there. We also looked through the museum (which seemed much smaller than I remembered). We then took the driving tour around the battlefield.

The battlefield is marked with headstones in each location where a body was found. The stone is marked to indicate whether it was a Cavalry Soldier or an American Indian who had died in that location. It was a really interesting tour. The last time I had gone when I was younger than Campbell there was no driving tour. Campbell really enjoyed our 2 hour visit to this park.