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You're right-a horse. Custer fired his apprehensive Crow guides just before attacking and they survived-but you can't call these lucky firees as "survivors of the battle". I was looking down that draw when we went and it's wide open shooting gallery of a hill towards the Little Bighorn River that just goes on and on and on... "I wouldn't want to attack those woods on horse if I was reasonably certain that there was an old lady's knitting circle down there with firearms" I joked to the wife (The wife was in no joking mood as she later said the Custer battlefield was one of the spookiest places she has ever been). But Custer attacked down that draw against the advice of his guides, at a massively numerically superior foe, after splitting his forces, and possibly even after watching Reno being routed-and it's possible he knew about those Winchester rifles the Lakota had been buying. What was he thinking? The Little Bighorn is a great place to visit and wrestle with the mystery. DSC00068 pictures from west photos on webshots
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