We visited a Lewis and Clark Monument today. Pompeys Pillar National Monument was only about a 20 minute drive east of Billings, and Anne-Marie and I enjoyed the interpretive center, the displays, the movie, and even the walk up the wooden stairway to view Clarks engraving in the sandstone.
The Interpretive center and Pompeys Pillar.
Custer’s troops were camped in the valley centered across the Yellowstone River in 1873. Anne-Marie on the stairs at the top of Pompeys Pillar.
Wooden stairs clear to the top and only a small deck at the top. There were motion detectors and cameras at various places along the walkway.
Clarks inscription under really thick glass. There were many inscriptions dating from the late 1800s on the adjacent rock.
We visited Boot Hill Cemetery on our way back to the RV Park.
Marked but not labeled. A brass marker at the top of the cemetery listed the occupants alphabetically but not where they were, and there were dozens of unknowns listed, children & soldiers.
We arrived back at the trailer to good smells in the slow-cooker of Anne-Marie’s Wolf At The Door chili.
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