Last day of vacation. :-( We had had a tough time coming home. So, we dawdled and stalled the whole way back to Cheyenne from Sheridan. We stopped at the old Fort Phil Kearney historic site. The fort doesn't exist at all anymore, and was subject to repeated Indian attacks while it was an active post. At one point in its history, Crazy Horse led a decoy that drew the entire calvary over a hill after them, into a waiting group of Indian warriors 2,000 strong that massacred the soldiers. It was kind of eerie, especially because they put metal cutouts of Indian warriors on the hill so you could see exactly what the soldiers and settlers saw right before the massacre.
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