I had forgotten how remote some parts of Montana are. I turned off at the first gas sign upon entering Montana and drove past this site into the little town looking for a tradition gas station & had to double back to here.
These are my Rocky Mountains!
As most of you know, I grew up in Montana. Also,Ann, the protagonist in my novel did too. What a coincidence!
My mother's best friend's father was Chief of the Blackfoot & she often came over to the east side of the rockies to visit them on the reservation.
Ann's romantic interest is a Blackfoot, Tom. She believes he is her boyfriend. The reader isn't so sure.
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Bummer, with all of Lewis & Clark encounters with Indians, two deaths occurred.
Montana is known as "Big Sky Country." I felt the sky did appear bigger than in South Dakota. Perhaps it's because there's always the mountains on at least one horizon.
I stopped at the site of The Battle of the Little Big Horn (Custer's Last Stand.) It was the largest concentration of Indians from six tribes that history has ever recorded. It took place in 1876. All of Custer's men were killed. The previous year the Sioux & Cheyenne defied the U.S. government because of the continued intrusion of whites into their sacred lands in the Black Hills. They gathered here with the great warrior Sitting Bull to fight.
There were samples of the army tent & Indian tent at the time.
Because the Indians removed all the dead warriors they are now trying to research where the various warriors fell & are putting red granite markers on each site.
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