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Post by crzhrs on Oct 25, 2018 13:18:20 GMT -6
Also did they find Kellogg body in this ravine. Yes, they did. Best wishes, Fred. According to Gibbon that while exploring the ravine where E Company was wiped out he came upon a decomposing body . . . it was not stripped . . . but had been scalped . . . one ear was gone . . . the clothing was not that of a soldier . . . "I caused one of the boots to be cut off . . . taken back to the camp where somebody said it belonged to the journalist." Kellogg took notes from May 17 to June 9 from Fort Lincoln to the Powder River which have been saved but after June 10 whatever notes he took have been lost. What the notes could have told us will be lost forever, if in fact they had any pertinent information.
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Post by AZ Ranger on Oct 26, 2018 9:16:40 GMT -6
Gibbon's crossing is where the old car bodies are in a LBH river channel. It is close to the old entrance road and the car bodies were most likely erosion control for flood events to prevent the old channel from cutting the banks towards the roads. There is a junction just as you go through the old gate . One road leads to the Administrative site and the other to fields and the location where materials were removed to fill in the gap between Battle Ridge Extension (BRE)and the new (current) entrance.
A photograph was found of the Kellogg marker at the end of BRE adjacent the old road and near Gibbon Crossing. From the picture location to a portion of the drainage of the old river channel it is approximately 80 yards.
An interesting observation made by myself and my friend Tom was a Cheyenne event toward the river where it turns toward the frontage road. It was not a public event. They were horse back close to Ford D.
Regards
AZ Ranger
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