GDG- Bliss Farm Site

[CHAR & CHARLIE]

I READ BRUCE'S POST

Charlie Eyster

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard M Kadas" <rkadas at sbcglobal.net>
To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: GDG- Bliss Farm Site


> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
> How did you get from trhe Bliss farm to LBH?
>  Dick
>
> CHAR & CHARLIE <rvn4fun at att.net> wrote:
>  Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
> 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
>
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