Day 4: Little Bighorn, Devils Tower, and Prairie Dogs

We saw the site of the Battle of Little Bighorn also known as Custer's Last Stand - spent all morning reliving the battle.  It took 2 days in June of 1876 to bury the 260 fallen soldiers; their resting places were marked with teepee poles cut to size.  In 1890 the Army erected white marble headstones making this the only battlefield where soldiers are buried where they fell.  George Armstrong Custer died here but his body was later moved to West Point.

Drove to Devils Tower in Wyoming, an amazing monolith!  To see the Kiowa legend of how Devils Tower came to be go to www.nps.gov/forteachers/upload/K-4_DISCOVER-KiowaLegend.pdf

 I also saw my first prairie dog town and the little guys were very curious; would come right up to me so I could take their picture!

These are black-tailed prairie dogs.  Can you see the black tip on his tail?  They get their name from their bark-like call.  They whistled and barked to communicate with each other the entire time we watched them.

Saw 8 new license plates again today, must be our lucky number - Iowa, Wisconsin, New York, Utah, Maryland, Indiana, New Mexico, and Georgia.