alanw
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Post by alanw on Jan 7, 2007 8:17:19 GMT -6
Hi, I have attached a photo I took from Weir point looking towards the Custer battlefield. The visitor center helps to locate LSH for example as well as a speck representing the monument about centre at the back of picture. I am sure that anybody with field glasses would have got a fairly good view of the goings on. OK there may have been dustclouds, smoke etc, but I'm certain they would have got the mesage that Custer wasn't having a picnic Alan img182.imageshack.us/img182/6803/viewofcusterbattlefieldqs2.th.jpg |
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Post by alanw on Jan 7, 2007 8:19:06 GMT -6
Sorry that didn't seem to work!! Will try again  |
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Post by alanw on Jan 7, 2007 8:23:10 GMT -6
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Post by Lawtonka on Jan 7, 2007 11:26:02 GMT -6
 Nice picture, Here is a little helping hand, hope you don't mind. If you like this, next time all you have to do is paste your url in between ![]() [/img] |
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Post by alanw on Jan 7, 2007 12:36:13 GMT -6
Many thanks for the advice Lawtonka Not the best picture I know. It is a cropped photo of me standing on Weir Point. I didn't try to zoom in on LSH as I was the focus of the pic. At the time I wasn't thinking how good the view was from there. I really do wonder how much they could have seen Alan  |
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Post by Lawtonka on Jan 7, 2007 17:12:03 GMT -6
Excellent Photo, post some more. I am always interested in seeing others views.
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Post by Realbird on Jan 7, 2007 20:23:09 GMT -6
I am continuously grateful for the efforts of the members of this board. This photo exemplifies the sense of sharing that makes this forum such an informative and gracious one.
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Post by mwkeogh on Apr 16, 2007 20:17:45 GMT -6
I think that it is often overlooked that the men on Weir Point did not need to focus much on LSH, as much of the action they witnessed took place on the much closer slopes of Calhoun Hill and the Keogh position.
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Post by Banned on Apr 18, 2007 12:19:45 GMT -6
You are right. And when some soldiers talked about "the end of the fight", they were talking about warriors mutilating bodies on Calhoun hill.
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Post by Banned on Apr 18, 2007 12:21:17 GMT -6
By the way, Allanw, what have you done to be taken near Custer's tombstone? I would have loved to do such a picture. When I visited the battlefield, in 2002, I had a Custer T-Shirt and I put a flag from Gettysburg near the tombstone.
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