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Drove into Oklahoma today. Lss wind and more varied terain. Getting hotter! Temp showed 102 on car thrmometer. Wetern Oklahoma has lots of windmills now. Ithink I saw hundreds. Guess alongwith oil and gas the state has lots of wind poer as well. Drove a little out of my way to visit Washata "battlefield" ( really a massacre site) where Custer attracked a peaceful Indian village and killed about 40 women and children. In addition he lost an officer and 17 men and made no attempt to recover them. It was apparrently the souce of maqjor friction between him and Benteen that persisted to the Little Bighorn battle. Anyway it was interesteing to see the place that was important prelude to Custers last stand so many mies away. Ended day in Elk City OK and tommorrow back in Tx. Hurah! Ill be home soon and looking forward to it. But who turned on the heater?!
Hi Jay, Just read about the Indian viewpoint of the events at Washata in a great book we found in Salado, TX when we were at a family reunion. It is called "Little Bighorn Revisited" by Herman Viola, Curator Emeritus of the Smithsonian. I hope to show it to you soon when we meet again. Welcome back to Texas where the cicadas start chirping at 8:00 in the morning heat. Pauline
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