The Battle of the Big Hole on August 9 and 10, 1877, was a turning point of the Nez Perce War, a five-month war in which U.S. Army forces tried to place one third of the Nez Perce tribe on a reservation.
The site of Fort Connah is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Fort Connah was a Hudson's Bay Trading Post established in 1846. One of the three original buildings still remains and is believed to be the oldest standing building in Montana.
Missouri River's preeminent fur trading post from the 1820's to the Civil War, Fort Union was a colorful mix of river boaters, fur traders, Plains Indian tribes and frontier capitalists.
The 1500 acre Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site illustrates the development of the Northern Plains cattle industry from the 1850's to recent times. This was the headquarters area of one of the largest and best known 19th-century range ranches in the country.
Lemhi Pass, at elevation 7,323 feet above sea level, is a rounded saddle in the Beaverhead Mountains of the Bitterroot Range, along the Continental Divide, between Montana and Idaho.
The Ninemile Historic Remount Depot introduces the public to a historic and working Ranger Station. The Visitor Center has information about the pack animals and firefighters that worked the Northern Rockies during the 1920s and 1940s, and is open during the summer, Memorial Day to Labor Day.
Old Faithful is undoubtedly the world's best-known geyser and most publicized natural phenomenon of any sort. It is the most consistent geyser in all of Yellowstone Park. Its heights, intervals, and lengths of eruption have varied very little in the past 100 years.
The St. Ignatius Mission was built in the early 1890's. This Catholic Church is unique because its walls and ceilings have 61 original paintings by Brother Joseph Carignano, S.J. on them. The Mission Mountain Range is a beautiful backdrop of scenery behind the Mission Church.
The Historic Crail Ranch, Big Sky's original homestead, is now open for visitors. The unique log structure preserves the story of the Frank Crail family and their life in the Big Sky community in the early 1900s.
