We awoke to rain on Thursday. The sky was dark and threatening to the east and south. We decided not a good day for hiking so we drove the Custer Loop. This is a 45 mile loop thru the badlands, visiting many locations where US cavalry crossed, camped and fought in the 1860's and 70's. When you see the nature of the rugged terrain, you can't imaging how 1000's of men, wagons, mule teams, horses, and cattle could maneuver across the Badlands, all the while looking over their shoulder for Sioux Indians. Pretty daunting.
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| 1 bdrm w/ Kitchen & "great room" |
After the loop, we went back to the motorhome for lunch and then did a walking tour of Medora. Cute town. Only a few hundred population, but I think all of them are working in the tourism business. Lots of shops, ice cream parlors, restaurants (they call them dining rooms) and saloons. We also visited Theodore's original cabin which he had built before building a large ranch house in later years.
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| Cowboy are w/ barbed wire, skull &rock |
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| No roads in Custer's day |
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