
Quintessential road trip: restlessness + a rag-top + Time. 8969 miles in 34 days. Itinerary: Phila-Raleigh-Ashville, NC–Natchez,MS –Dallas,TX–Carlsbad-Albuquerque-Santa Fe,NM–Mesa Verde,CO– Chinle,AZ–Flagstaff,AZ –Las Vegas, NV–Los Angeles-Carmel-Pleasant Hill-Mendocino-Ferndale,CA-Ashland-Eugene-Lake Oswego,OR–Lewiston-Clarkston, ID-Lolo-Hardin,MT–Deadwood-Sioux City,SD–Des Moines,IA–Sandusky,OH–Phila.
Thursday, June 24, 2004
Lining the inside wall surface of the carved-out mound that is the memorial to the Indian side of the story of Custer's "massacre" (you can tell whose side I'm on...), are panels with quotes by both participants and their descendants. The memorial is fairly recent -- I think from the mid-1990s -- and a reminder for balance and away from the heroic-white-soldiers-massacred-by-Injuns story that is part of the popular image. (Click photo to enlarge and read.) Sitting Bull was already old at the time of this event.

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