By ANGELA WOOLETT, For The Prairie Star
CHINOOK, Mont. - When Henry and Margaretha Hofeldt brought their
family to the Bear Paw Mountains in the late 1800s, the two German
immigrants may not have realized the kind of mark they would make
on the land that would eventually become Chinook, Mont.
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