Northeast Route 2001

        Day number 2 started at 6:30 am in the Budget Inn.  We ate breakfast at Carroll College.  We went to the Montana Capitol Building and the Montana Historical Society Museum.  When entering the museum we met a cheerful older lady that just happened to be our guide.  She started to tell us about what exhibits we would see such as:  military, native Americans, miners, homesteading, and works of art by Charles Russell. 

        In the military exhibit we saw guns, uniforms, patches, pictures, newspaper clippings, and other weapons that were used in all of the wars from WWI to Vietnam.  In different Native American exhibits we noticed arrowheads, dolls, bags, pipes, jewelry, and blankets.  Some of the arrowheads that they had were over 11,300 years old.  We also saw what they use to use the different buffalo parts.  We saw a very rare white buffalo with blue eyes, tan hooves, and a brown topknot.  It weighed about 1900 pounds, it was six feet tall and about 12 feet long from the tip of the nose to its tail, and around six feet tall.  There is only about one white buffalo born every five million years.      

        Throughout the museum we saw all kinds of cool stuff like paintings, statues, pianos, chairs, butter churners, furs, clothing, bottles, guns, and a Wooly Mammoth leg bone and jaw bone that are about 12,000 years old.  The coolest thing we saw was an old stoplight that was from our hometown, Whitefish, Montana that was donated in 1932.