GDG- Bliss Farm Site

[CHAR & CHARLIE]

Bruce,  one of the decisions of the park services present policy is not to 
mow the grass on the field.  The grass obscures the markers on Custer Hill 
and you can not see the reconstructed earthworks at Reno Hill.  In talking 
to one of the rangers he said that they have received incredible amounts of 
letters regarding the subject including letters from Congressmen, but to no 
avail , the park service is sticking to its guns and attempting to have the 
terrain appear of it did 131 years ago.
One of the high points of my last trip to the battlefield was a horseback 
ride with a Crow Indian across the LBH river up at Medicine Tail ford - up 
to Weir point - down Cedar coulee and up Nye-Cartwright and down Medicine 
Tail coulee.  Following in Custer's last ride.

Charlie Eyster


> At the Little Bighorn Battlefield, for many years there was a dirt path 
> that
> led through the grass past the marble markers along the so-called "South
> Skirmish Line" and thence to the brink of "Deep Ravine", but from the 
> mid-1980s
> until a few years ago, the path was blocked and closed down in order to
> preserve  the battlefield in a relatively untouched manner.  The problem 
> was,
> however, that no-one could thereafter go out to the South Skirmish Line 
> markers  or
> Deep Ravine and get a real on-the-spot sense of the battlefield in those
> crucial locations.  A few years ago, the NPS decided to re-open the  path, 
> once
> again allowing visitors to stand where the soldiers and warriors  fought 
> and
> died.
>
> Bruce  Trinque
> Amston, CT