Bighorn Battlefield Photos

I just finished reading a book titled, "Where Custer Fell: Photographs of the Little Bighorn Battlefield Then and Now." In the book the authors compare modern day photographs to photos taken in the years after the battle. The earliest photos were taken a year after the battle--a fact I was completely unaware of. The authors use the photographs to show changes that have occurred to the battle site but also to illustrate the battle itself. In many cases a veteran of the battle would revisit the battleground and have a photo taken of himself describing the action in a particular location. Thus, the photos provide a visual record of a battle participant's testimony that has often gotten confused in written accounts. The book also provides some interesting photographic accounts of where the original grave markers were and how some of them have moved or disappeared or were placed incorrectly. You have to be a Custer-buff to enjoy something like this and it helps if you've actually been to the battlefield. Anyway, I have included a photo I took myself at the battlefield a few years ago. It is a photo of a stray Indian pony I found up on Weir Point. The view is to the north with the visitor center in the distance (marked by the trees on the ridge) and the Custer Monument which is on the hill to the right of the visitor center. It was from Weir Point that the remnants of Reno's and Benteen's battalions witnessed the final destruction of Custer's command.