Sitting Bull

[Big Muddy rancher]

July 20th is the 125th anniversaru of Sitting Bulls surrender at Fort Buford North Dakota. They are having a evening ceremony to commemorate the event.
Since the route from Wood Mountain- Willow Bunch to the Big Muddy was the trail they used and it runs down thru our pasture on tho the ranch that Miss Tam grew up on we thought it would be nice to drive down for the event. Miss Tam gets tours in most days in the summer to hear the history of the outlaws and Sitting Bull . Not sure if any of you are in the area but let us know if your going and maybe we can me up. It is only about 100 miles for us and if Sitting Bull could do it I guess we can to. When I was growing up a son of the Metis scout that rode ahead to alert the US army to start north with supplies to feed Sitting Bull and his tribe used to work for my Dad.

 

[Murgen]

You've done it at least once before, haven't you BMR? Didn't you follow the trail from your pasture, down to Miss Tam's homestead, to find her?

 

[ranchwife]

had to show your post to my "history buff" 10 year old...coming home from visiting with my dad, we stopped at fort buford and got some pretty good pictures...a day my boy soon won't forget!!

Flint "sitting with Sitting Bull"!

Flint just loved walking around and seeing all the artifacts and reading about the surrender!! Poor kid was born 100 years too late! :wink: :wink: [/img]

 

[cowsense]

You've done it at least once before, haven't you BMR? Didn't you follow the trail from your pasture, down to Miss Tam's homestead, to find her?

Murgen..............surely you're not suggesting that good old BMR was a "fence crawler"!!! You'll have OT spinning in circles if he figures the border was breached............:twisted: :twisted: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

You've done it at least once before, haven't you BMR? Didn't you follow the trail from your pasture, down to Miss Tam's homestead, to find her?

Murgen..............surely you're not suggesting that good old BMR was a "fence crawler"!!! You'll have OT spinning in circles if he figures the border was breached............:twisted: :twisted: :lol: :lol: :lol:

HaHA I was tall enough to step over. :wink:

Ranchwife if you get the chance you and the kids should check out Fort Union, It's not far from Buford and more interesting stuff.

 

[Anonymous]

You've done it at least once before, haven't you BMR? Didn't you follow the trail from your pasture, down to Miss Tam's homestead, to find her?

Murgen..............surely you're not suggesting that good old BMR was a "fence crawler"!!! You'll have OT spinning in circles if he figures the border was breached............:twisted: :twisted: :lol: :lol: :lol:

HaHA I was tall enough to step over. :wink:

Ranchwife if you get the chance you and the kids should check out Fort Union, It's not far from Buford and more interesting stuff.

Back then half the fence was probably on the ground if it was anything like the one north of us-- many a time I ended up 10-20 miles into Canada fighting fire or something before we even realized where we were....Best roads weren't at the ports either :wink: :lol:

I think those days are long gone......

 

[Manitoba_Rancher]

Yeah OT I think they would likely mistake you for Wilford Brimley and kick you back to the US if you tried to cross....... :wink: