How many Indians did you say were over that hill?

We drove about 400 miles yesterday from Beaulah, ND, to Hardin, Mont., and the Little Big Horn Battlefield. The drive was once again beautiful and once again long. We set up in a KOA and headed over to the battlefield. We bought the cd self guided tour and were able to view the progress of events while observing the terrain. Custer split his forces up to try to prevent the Indians from escaping into the hills. The Indians were quite surprised by the attach being launched against them because there were 7,000 people in the camp of which 1500 to 2000 were able bodied warriors. Custer had a total of about 400, but split down into 5 groups. At the end of the day, 260 soldiers were dead. The others survived because the main body of the army which Custer was scouting for arrived on the scene. It is rolling ground with valleys and gullies everywhere. White markers are in the ground where historians think soldiers fell and red markers where indians fell. Not many red markers.
In yesterday's entry, I left out an interesting story. Back in the late '60's, my brother Andy was hitchhiking cross country and was on the road near Fargo, ND, which is on the eastern border of ND. A couple picked him up and headed west going about 90 miles per hour. They drove all the way across ND and were heading into the Theodore Roosevelt NP at the Painted Canyon area when Andy asked to get out. They let him out and went one way and Andy began hitching. A couple ranchers eventually picked him up and were talking about a couple who had robbed a bank in Minneapolis and were last scene heading west. How about that?