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Montana Cowboys Association Museum Great Falls, Montana Location:    311 3rd Street NW Great Falls 59404 406-761-9299 This web page has had 2348 unique visitors. BigSkyMontana.us BigSkyMontana.us Description: The Cowboys Museum is one of the Many projects the Montana Cowboys Association has undertaken to perpetuate the historical importance of our Western heritage. Built in the late 1930's by the National Youth Administration and opened in 1941, the Cowboys Museum is an authentic log cabin with double fireplaces and replicas of hitching posts from Montana's frontier days.Exhibits include a lady's intricately fashioned side-saddle, a trickrope saddle, numerous Indian artifacts, and a Kimball-Reed organ that way brought down-river from St. Louis to Fort Benton. Montana in 1876. There is also a gun collection that even avid gun collectors would be in awe of. There are also a number of special exhibits including a pair of spurs given to Jack Kennedy in 1890 by Tom Horn (the subject of the Steve McQueen movie, ‘Tom Horn’), a rivet set made by Kid Curry, and local cowboy artist Charlie Russell's black boots, and a list that goes on with over 500 momentos of a romantic era in our nation's history and is an integral part of Montana's past."