Hey, everybody. I have a little something special for you today, and I wanted to give you the backstory for how this all came about.

So this summer, I traveled with my family throughout Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota.

And along this trip, we visited many of the historic places in America that I had only just read about.

Historic places, as well as beautiful places in nature.

All of these places really reminded me about how amazing America is.

And it was a great opportunity to experience it with my young children.

But also as a journalist, it was a reminder for why on the ground reporting really matters.

When you arrive at a place with a little bit of a point of reference, but really

let curiosity be your guide, that's where the magic of storytelling really happens because that

curiosity leads to information that just delights you and informs you and makes you feel a little bit

smarter about your world. So as you've seen over the last several weeks, I've shared little tidbits with you of things

that I've learned along the way. I wasn't quite sure what we'd encounter, but if I found

something interesting, I've been able to create videos or podcasts about that. And I look forward to

doing a lot more of this because I love this sort of work. And history provides the context for so many of the stories we're experiencing today. So many of the themes of stories that we're experiencing today resonate with the past as well. So the past is really important to inform us about the president. It's one of the things I think is actually missing from general news coverage. So many places in America, though, that are historically important, it, you could just sort of drive by. That's one of the things I've learned. Like, if you didn't know they were there, you could just sort of drive by. This is a case for the national monument, the battlefield for the Battle of Little Bighorn, also known as Custer's last stand. I mean, it's clearly marked. But if you didn't know it was there, you could just kind of zoom right by. Well, I'm lucky that we were able to stop and spend some time

there. And I had some reference of what this was about, what this battle was about. Generally

speaking, you had the U.S. military on one side, you had the Native Americans on the other,

and it was a resounding defeat of the U.S. military

by the Native American tribes that has become not only an important historical story,

but the story of legends. It's been the subject of a series of books and documentaries and

movies. It's taken historians and journalists decades to research the different

parts of this because as I realized and I didn't know it, just how complicated and interesting

and important this story really is. So as we arrive at the visitor center, there's a park ranger

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