Anybody been there and is it worth 1/2 day to visit it? After attending John Graham’s Coyote Days in August, my nephew and I are planning on going there for an afternoon.

Absolutely. My wife and I stopped and glad we did. There is something about that place that got to both us upon arrival. Walking among the graves and rolling grass meadows…

Nice interpretative station and video depicts the “intended game plan” that day.

Definitely do it. Take the drive out to where Reno/Benteen fought their battle and take a walk around the national graveyard. Look at the dates on some of the headstones. Facinating place, you can feel something important happened there. Tour the museum.

After Little Big Horn, We stopped in Broadus MT at the cross road; old diner with a 2 lane bowling alley, and arcade. Craig O was not hanging there so we bolted. Tell ya what, not much going on there! The store staff of 2 were delighted to have someone stop, they were dang lonely.
Cruised to Rapid City to fly home the next day

Yes. We enjoyed it and learned a lot. If you like that kind of history stop at the Fort Sill museum if you get a chance.

It's definitely worth the stop, but it might be hard to kill more than a couple hours there.

They don't allow dogs, if that's an issue. Last time I was there, some sad-looking native was at the ticket booth taking money. What a sad fall from grace it was to see.....way back when, that guy would have scalped me for being there. Now he relies on the feds for a paycheck.

Yes, you can really get an appreciation for the difficulty of knowing where the enemy was once you see the landscape. I think 2-3 hours is about right.

Pompeys Pillar, a stop on the Lewis & Clark expedition and named for Sacagawea's son, is worth seeing also and is less than an hour away from the Little Bighorn site.

You bet ya it's worth seeing. Been there twice on 2 different vacations.
I recommend you read up on the battle and look at the maps before you go. It will help you out.
There is a good old historical fiction book out there. Bugles In The Afternoon by Ernest Haycox that is worth reading. Many many other books about The Little Big Horn also.

Right after the battle, to get the wounded soldiers care, a steamboat captain (Grant Marsh) of the Far West steamboat ran over 700 miles from the mouth of the Little Big Horn near Harding Montana to Bismarck North Dakota in 54 hours. He ran the Big Horn, Yellowstone and stump filled Missouri river night and day. Just amazing stuff. Lot's of valor like that and lots of stupidity on Custers part. Well worth the effort to go and see the battlefield. Rosebud battlefield is close also.

It is worth the stop for sure. One thing though, I realize that the freeway system has been there for a long time but it surprises me that it literally runs along /through the camp site of the tribes during the battle.

Absolutely. Been there twice. Would go again.

I've been there Twice and will go more times as the Grandkids age.

The books written from the Natives standpoint are Amazing ...walking among the markers where soldiers actually fell is a sombering thing to do. Custer was a pompus bung

I just heard the song Comanche the Brave Horse, a survivor of the battle, by Johnny Hornton. One thing was incorrect in the song and it says Comanche was General Custer’s horse which is incorrect. It was Capt. Myles Keogh’s horse who also got killed in the battle. After Comanche was nursed back to health from about four wounds, it was ordered that he would never have another saddle strapped on him or be rode again. I believe he lived for another 16 years. Also, he is preserved and fully mounted and on display at the University of Kansas.

It’s definitely worth the stop. One of things that really stuck with me is that the battle lasted only about 15 minutes.

Well sort of. Yes, at the north end of the battlefield it didn't take long for the allied Indian forces to dispatch Custer and his band.

BUT, at the south end of the battlefield (about 1 1/2 miles to the south), another group of soldiers under Major Reno and Captain Benteen forted up on top of a hill and held the Indians off till the main group of soldiers under General Terry relieved them the next day.
Lots of wounded. These wounded troops are the ones that they carted down The Little Big Horn about 20 miles north to the where the steamboat was anchored.

Definitely worth the visit. The first time I went there was in 1974. The last time I went there was a couple of years ago. The first time I went there I found this. Don't pick up anything that you might find now though, big no-no.

Get ahold of Montana tourism for literature on the area and check out Fort Smith Mt and Yellowtail Dam , that's also where the Haystack battle was along the Bozeman Trail .
Yellowtail Dam is well worth a stop to see a canyon filled with water and go to boat launch unless you don't do switch backs well or don't have good brakes , there's a Indian monument up there and you can see the buffalo in the pasture from there with field glasses or a spotting scope .

The museum in Hardin is the busiest in the entire state and highlites some of the farming equipment from days gone by , as well as Campbell farming corporation who was once the largest farming corporation in the world .
Mr Campbell was sent to Russia to teach them how to grow wheat even , oh and there small field is 25,000 acres !

So do yourself a favor and spent a bit more than a day in Big Horn Co. to see the sights , then near Custer Mt is fort Manual Lisa a fishing access where the first Fur trade fort was after the Lewis and Clark expedition .
There's world class trout fishing in the Big Horn River also and remember the early mountain men trapped beaver in all the streams and rivers you'll drive by but then so did I when I lived down there .

Mark, is that old shell a 45-70
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That cartridge case might be a 45/70 government, I didn't think they were a belted case?
Yes, it's rimmed and belted?

Doug
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Yes it worth the stop I have been there twice if I was in the area I would stop again.