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Blaine County Museum Chinook, Montana Location:    501 Indiana Chinook 59523-0927 406-357-2590 This web page has had 2517 unique visitors. BigSkyMontana.us Buy Patrick Clark posters online. Description: The Blaine County Museum is an historical museum with an emphasis on the homestead era. Originally opening in 1977, the museum is located in ‘Griffin Hall’, an historic building built in 1915. Among the many exhibits are examples of Indian culture, paleontology, an old west church, a ‘tar paper’ homestead shack, a doctor's office, a dentist's office, an old X-ray machine, and a homestead schoolroom. In addition, there is a multi-media presentation to preserve the history of the Bear's Paw Battlefield, the last major Indian battle site.Native American artifacts and culture make up an important part of the museum’s collection, together with early photographic records of Nez Perce Life.Military and Indian artifacts from the Bear Paw Battlefield are on exhibit itself, just sixteen miles south of Chinook, should be on your itinerary.Interpretive signage and markers line the footpath through the battlefield.Exploration of northern Montana began with the fur traders of the mid 1700’s and Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery expedition in 1804. Settlement did not begin in earnest until the Great Northern Railroad was completed in 1887. Prior to that time access was by means of the boom of the cattle and sheep ranching era, and their associated range wars. Large scale homesteading began only as recently as 1910. Extensive exhibits tell the story of the Nez Perce Indians, the pioneer days of the cowboy, the hardships of the homestead era, and follow Blaine County through two World Wars."