Buffalo

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Buffalo, WY

We woke up to cooler temperatures this morning. Sixty-six degrees. What a relief!

After 2 days of longer drives, we were all pretty happy that we only had a short ride of 120 miles. 

We entered the "Crow" Indian Reservation as we headed south on I-90.  We were passing by this battlefield site so we decided to take a side trip to Little Big Horn, This is the site of Custer's Last Stand, in 1876.  More than 260 soldiers and personnel were defeated and died at the hands of several thousand Lakota & Cheyenne Indians.  Very interesting historical area. They had a museum and a drive thru trail to see where the various battles took place. There are monuments/markers placed in the locations where the soldiers actually fell, died and were later found.
 
Monument on actual location of  Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer's last stand.  Names of his 7th Cavalry soldiers are engraved 




























The ride to Buffalo is taking us through Badland-like country, and we will drive through the Big Horn mountains.  We saw a huge group of pronghorns (remember them?) but since they were so unexpected, you guessed it, no pictures. Refer to our earlier blogs for pics :-).  We have certainly left the mountains of Montana and entered Wyoming
 













The town of Buffalo, WY is the actual setting for the television show Longmire (now on Netflix). The city and county of Durant and Absaroka are fictional but based on the actual town of Buffalo and Johnson County, Wyoming.  There is a five year tradition to hold "Longmire Days" in Buffalo from July 8th - 10th.  It allows the fans of the show to interact with the stars.  (Too bad we came here too late to have had a beer with Lou Diamond Phillips!)





While in town, we had our Saturday dinner out.  Great Mexican Food at a discount, thanks to coupons provided by our RV park.  Here you see our friends Claude & Bobbi and of course you all know the other person in the pic.


We will stay at this campground (an oasis under the trees) for 2 nights.  This is the polar opposite of last night's "parking lot" style campground.  The high temp is expected to be 82 today. Phew!




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