I live about 3 miles from Battlefield and have always been amazed how many visitors it continues to get. Think you hit nail-on-head about the view from ridge - can see for long distance and nearly entire area where battles unfolded. A little family history - my great grandfather was with Gibbons' troops that found Custer 3 days after the battle.
Yep. That area is so ripe with history it's uncanny.
And it is beautiful. That coming from a Coloradoan.
There is a reason why Montana is called Big Sky Country. When you go there, you will understand.
True story. Years ago I was in rental RV with my family and my Aunt was in a rental SUV trailing us.
She gets on the walkie-talkie and says "Hey dude, you got something about to fall off under the RV".
I pulled over and sure as shit the bracket on the brown pipe had broke and was bouncing around like a young Brittany Spears.
So. Here we are in the middle of Nowhere, MT and my Uncle gets out the map (pre-GPS days) and says "Well, Grass Lodge is about 7 miles up the highway".
Boom. Lets go.
So we get to Grass Lodge and find the hardware store. Small place. I ask the guy behind the counter if he has any bailing wire. I've got an RV sewer pipe that is ready to divorce itself from my rented RV and bailing wire and duct tape were the two things that came to mind.
He was a pretty cool guy. Reminded me of Sam Elliott in Mask.
He says over there in aisle 2. I Buy the bailing wire, my Uncle and I crawl under the RV and after about 2 minutes of back and forth I realize this is REALLY good bailing wire and there is no way in hell its breaking that day.
I walk back in and before I have a chance to mutter a single word, he says "The wire cutters are also in aisle 2, about 5 feet away from the bailing wire - thataway".
I laughed so hard when I walked out I thought I was going to fall down.
True story and I still have that bailing wire 20 years later. And it's still the best damn bailing wire ever made IMO.
