Tickets still available to Buffalo Bash

Tickets are still available to the C.E. Conrad Buffalo Bash and Sideshow.

The event, a fundraiser for the Conrad Mansion, starts at 6 p.m. Sept. 12. It takes place at Spring Brook Ranch near Herron Park, home to several bison.

Kalispell founder Charles Conrad, whose home is now the Conrad Mansion Museum, is credited with helping save bison from extinction in the United States. He purchased about 50 animals and pastured them on what is now Kalispell’s Buffalo Hill Golf Course.

The Buffalo Bash celebrates that legacy with a bison stew dinner with all the fixin’s, a performance by cowboy singer Bill Humenik, an art show with bison paintings from Going to the Sun Gallery in Whitefish, door prizes and more. Actors playing Conrad and his wife, Alicia, will tell stories about the Kalispell founders’ lives.

Tickets are $120 each; only 130 are available. Purchase tickets in Kalispell at the museum gift shop, 330 Woodland Ave., or The Bookshelf, 101 Main St.; in Whitefish at Going to the Sun Gallery, 1377 Central Ave.; at The Shops at Station 8, 38 U.S. 2 E., Columbia Falls; or at the Bigfork Museum of Art and History on Electric Avenue in Bigfork.

For more information, call 755-2166 or visit www.conradmansion.com.