Robinson Military Elephants (Epilog)

This is Pitt's grave site at the Fairgrounds in Dillon, Montana. Some years back I received a letter from a College in that area asking information on "Pitt" and what battles she might have been in. I made the mistake of explaining that when asked, "102" is the age people want to hear, it is a "feel good" number which generally closes the conversation, when in fact she wasn't even half that age. Also that she had no Military record other than the skirmishes she underwent at such places as the Palace Theater. Damned if I didn't get letters back questioning my accuracy and citing documents of hundred year old elephants and their wars, now I was sorry I had ever opened the first letter. I assume they must have had an agenda or even a Federal Grant they were trying to justify. Arky Scott said it was a rainy night and as was customary, the elephants were being herded in an open area waiting for their act while the menagerie was being taken down. Suddenly a lightning bolt struck "Pitt" killing her instantly and knocking down the elephant on each side of her. Needless to say everything was pandemonium until order was restored. In Arky's words "busted every gut in her".