
Mattox Winter Home263 viewsChuck and Elouise's sybaritic winter home in Bend, complete with two-wagon garage. (Actually it depicts an upscale residence of the 19th-century Silver City boom town.)Sep 18, 2021
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Boom Town268 viewsNew settlements sprang up in support of the mining boom of the mid-19th-century. This one is called Silver City.Sep 18, 2021
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Silver City storefronts211 viewsShop facades on the main street of Silver City. The second floor, of course, houses a brothel.Sep 18, 2021
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Hard-Rock Mine266 viewsNot a cafe.Sep 18, 2021
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Life on the Frontier259 viewsA pioneer woman preparing to enter her log cabin in the backwoods of the Pacific Northwest. It was customary in those days to wear masks to ward off diseases such as smallpox and tuberculosis.Sep 18, 2021
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Assay Office Accoutrements204 viewsThis appears to represent an office where mining claims were evaluated and their worth assessed, so that the office owner could falsify their value and buy them up for a song and a dance.Sep 18, 2021
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Surveyor's Wagon252 viewsFur trapping gave way to mining and other activities in the mid-1800s. This wagon appears to be a vehicle for a surveying expedition. Unfortunately, the surveyor apparently got lost and perished of hunger, thirst and exposure in the desert, or maybe was scalped by Indians, because he is nowhere to be seen.Sep 18, 2021
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Mattox Family RV261 viewsIn reality, an Oregon Trail Conestoga wagon. This example had the equivalent for its time of what today would be a flat tire. (Actually this is just the museum's way of making it harder to steal.).Sep 18, 2021
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Hudson's Bay Co. Fur Trapper Camp247 viewsNote the Hudson's Bay Company flag at the left. For a while there was doubt about whether the Oregon Territory would become part of Canada or the USA. This was resolved by the USA threatening to invade Canada and seize everything up to 54 degrees and forty minutes north, then making the Canadians accept a "compromise" whereby the Americans got everything they really wanted in the first place.Sep 18, 2021
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Fur Fort Warehouse259 viewsI don't remember the purpose of the large machine at the right, nor do I know why they would need a cannon, other than to fend off the aggressive, greedy and belligerent American Yankees (this was the era of "Fifty-four forty or fight").Sep 18, 2021
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Fort Nez Perce238 viewsScots officers, French Canadian and Iroquois fur trappers manned the fort, which was named for what was presumably the dominant local Native American tribe, upon whose lands the fort was encroaching.Sep 18, 2021
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Lakeside Shelter289 viewsNorthern Paiute campground, first stop in the Spirit of the West exhibit.Sep 18, 2021
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