Custer After a peaceful night's sleep in our comfortable motel and a terrific breakfast, we set off for our day's touring.  Driving through Custer State Park we didn't come across any bison but we saw plenty of droppings, so we know they are still there!  We did, however, see these beautiful antelope. One of the most exciting drives was past these magnificent oddly shaped, weathered granite spires.  In the picture below, you can see some of them in the background.  On the left is a postcard showing the famous Needles Eye Next stop was the Mammoth Site in Hot Springs.  It is believed to be the largest concentra- tion of Columbian mammoth bones found to date in the Western Hemisphere.  The site is believed to be 26,000 years old and it is thought that it used to be a sinkhole where animals became trapped in the slippery, quicksand-like banks and died of starvation.  The site is now situated in a building and escavations are ongoing. Our next destination was the Crazy Horse Memorial.  Here we spent hours walking around and admiring the beautiful Indian beadwork, arts and crafts.  Our visit was timed to perfec- tion because as we were about to leave, the clouds started rolling in and soon the memorial was enveloped in a thick white cotton ball. One can clearly see the working platforms on the top of the head Linda and I in front of a 1/34th scale model with the actual memorial in the background Here are some postcards that I have scanned in with more information Top picture shows the "nose blast" in August 1993 and bottom picture is the completed face as it is today Born in Boston of Polish descent and orphaned at age one, sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski (1908-1982) was completley self-taught.  Shown here with his marble 1/300th Crazy Horse scale model, he was invited to carve the mountain by Lakota chiefs.  Korczak made the Memorial a non-profit, humanitarian project The popular "Fighting Stallions" bronze is a larger-than-life size enlargement from Korczak's 18-inch-high, African mahogany original.  An unusual aspect of the sculpture is that both horses are balanced on the tail of one horse.