The famous five are away on a splendid weekend adventure.

Do we have to go home today?

sighed Anne.

I agree said Dick.

Even Timmy looks sad.

Cheer up everyone.

Beams Julian, I booked long weekend tickets we can return anytime on Monday

Oh you are clever Julian said Anne save over 50% with the long weekend a ticket from Great Western Railway.

Adventures start here.

Selected routes turn supply.

Saving in comparison to an anytime return fare. A couple years ago out in Montana I learned an important lesson about

Custer's last stand. That's how we titled the project, how we scripted it. It's how we

considered the whole story from beginning to end.

Retelling the tragic events at the Battle of Little Bighorn in June

1876 as an ill-conceived debacle, a logistical failure for the U.S. 7th Cavalry, and certainly

for Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong

Custer, that charismatic and controversial officer who led more than 200 of his

men to their deaths on that hillside. Custer always had a way of grabbing people's attention, and he still does.

This tale of doom, of poor judgment and hubris, told for 150 years in so many books and movies is more often than not focused on the man himself and his terribly flawed choices.

But late in our schedule, we traveled an hour east to a site known as Deer Medicine Rocks, a formation of

sandstone boulders poised majestically on a tall bluff on privately held ranch land.

It was here at this location, so sacred to Native people still,

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