The Great Falls C.M Russell Museum then on to Bozeman

 

Charles Marion Russell was the "cowboy artist" who moved from St. Louis Missouri to be a real cowboy and ended up creating spectacular  paintings of the old West.  He did most of his work in Great Falls in the late 1800's.

His paintings of Indians, cowboys  and Western Animals are almost like photographs.  Here are Bison and wolves.

This tepee was beautiful and shows how much detail he could create with a brush.

This is a picture C.M. Russell  showing his buddies how to mold clay into an object.

The displays in the museum are some of the best we have ever seen.  It was worth spending the night in Great Falls, as it was closed on Wednesday.

After the museum we drove south to the town of Bozeman, Montana.  It has a fancy downtown area full of small shops and restaurants so we walked around and bought a couple more tee shirts.  It is the home town of Montana State University.

We thought this sidewalk chalk sign was very timely for today's world.

Bozeman is an old Western town and the downtown still has some of the cowboy/cattle drive feel.

We plan to spend the night here and visit the museum in the morning before heading back to the real world.

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