DAY 28 - GREAT FALLS, MT
JUNE 10, 2014

Another "bus day".  This one was very interesting and from two very different histories. 

We started with the recent history of Charles Russell, western artist.  In his lifetime, he produced nearly 4000 works of art including statues, watercolor paintings, oil paintings and pencil sketches.  At the C M Russell museum, photography was restricted, so we have no photos for this story.  The grounds included his home as well as his studio. 

C M Russell

Great studio for a great artist!

Looking at great art is exhausting.

 

The second piece of history was older by thousands of years.  The First Peoples Buffalo Jump was the source of survival for generations of native peoples.  We learned that at times rival bands cooperated in harvesting buffalo so all could live.  A buffalo jump doesn't look like much, that is, until you consider it's importance and all the activities that happened at it.  Then it is a sight to behold.

An important place.

Couple more displays and I'll be looking for a chair.

Run this way and we'll get away!

 

 

Keep running, it's working!

OH, OH!!!

For how many centuries have people walked here?

Good Bye Cruel World!
Don't jump, Cal!

At the end of the day, we met in a circle and traded stories.

Aliens wear strange things around their necks.



Dudley and Rexine