TO ALL OUR VETERANS:
THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE!!!
And in “THANKS-GIVING”, I want to replay a Civil War song that encapsulates my feelings about the service and sacrifice you made for OUR GREAT COUNTRY. (Please accept the updating of the original lyrics.)
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This coming Sunday, June 25th, in the year 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer was killed, along with five companies of the Seventh Cavalry who rode with him, at the Battle of the Little Bighorn —
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Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer has agreed to come with me to Wild Deadwood Reads in South Dakota on June 10th.
This isn’t the only time Custer has been in Black Hills country. Way back in July of 1874, President Ulysses S. Grant issued orders for Custer to scout a suitable site for a military post in the Black Hills. Custer himself told me his big mistake was bringing along those two prospectors. It had been rumored for years that the Black Hills were rich in gold, and those damn prospectors found it. “The beginning of the end,” he told me in genuine sorrow, “of the Plains Indians and their way of life.” Continue reading
Where else can you take an 1880s Train Ride through the Black Hills of South Dakota …
