Our ride is near. Just love the color of the lake with the ripples. In 1925, The Great Northern Railroad hired Captain Swanson to build the tour boat the Little Chief. Her original name was Rising Wolf and she was placed in Two Medicine Lake. In 1932 she transferred to Saint Mary Lake, and her namesake became the Little Chief. She is named after a monumental mountain rising from the shores of Saint Mary Lake. A year later in 1933, she moved back to Two Medicine Lake under the name Rising Wolf. Finally in 1970, she made the voyage back to Saint Mary Lake under the name Little Chief where she has remained ever since. This vessel is a 45-foot carvel planked launch with cedar on an oak frame authorized by the U.S. Coast Guard to carry 49 passengers with current Certificate of Inspection.