The Blaine County Museum offers a full exhibit relating to the Bear Paw Battlefield, the site of the last battle of the four-month Nez Perce War of 1877. The battlefield, located 16 miles south of Chinook, is part of the Nez Perce National Park and the Nez Perce (Nee-Me-Poo) National Historic Trail. Our exhibit houses displays of artifacts found at the Bear Paw Battlefield, time-period photographs, and the twenty-minute multi-media presentation “Forty Miles from Freedom”. Centered around Lorenzo Ghiglieri’s paintings of the conflict, the presentation recounts the events leading up to the battle and siege of the Bear Paw which ended one of the most remarkable and tragic retreats in this nation’s history.We also provide Bear Paw Battlefield cancellation stamps for the National Park Service’s Passport to Your National Parks® and Bear Paw Battlefield activity books for the National Park Service’s Junior Ranger program.