Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
The Range Riders Museum was founded in 1939.
The museum was founded in 1939 by a group of locals dedicated to preserving their her-
itage. Today it has 13 buildings and thousands of artifacts that include old saddles and cloth-
ing, machinery, dinosaur bones, phenomenal photographs by L. A. Huffman and Christian
Barthelmess (Bunny's great-grandfather, an Army photographer born in Germany), and 400
antique firearms in the Bert Clark Gun Collection. Bob commandeered a team of volunteers
to build four spectacular dioramas of the 1877 Battle of Lame Deer, Fort Keogh, the Mil-
waukee Railroad Roundhouse, and the famed L.O. Ranch, once southeast Montana's largest
ranch. An almost life-size replica of Main Street in Miles City circa 1877 is another can't-
miss exhibit.
Pioneer Day,
usually held in June, fills the museum with activities, reenact-
ments, food, and entertainment. This museum has been a labor of love for so many, and it
captures the spirit of this frontier town.
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WaterWorks Art Museum
Quite a contrast to the Range Riders Museum but just as compelling is the
WaterWorks
Art Museum
(Waterplant Rd., 406/234-0635,
www.waterworksgallery.org
,
9am-5pm
Tues.-Sun. May.-Sept., 1pm-5pm Tues.-Sun., Oct.-April, closed January, free). Creatively
