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High Desert Housing764 viewsA traditional Native American tipi, in front of a regular reservation house of the type that replaced it.Sep 18, 2021
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Native American Handicrafts686 viewsAnother line of business often pursued by Native Americans is the production and sale of traditional goods such as baskets, pottery, jewelry, scalps, etc.Sep 18, 2021
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The Cowboys are the Indians697 viewsI know, they're not Indians, they're Native Americans. Regardless, many of them went into the ranching business and became rather successful at it.Sep 18, 2021
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A Prickly Character674 viewsPokey the Porcupine, Gert the Grey Fox's next-door neighbor. We met up with him again later.Sep 18, 2021
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Mattox Summer Home707 viewsChuck Mattox proudly welcomes us to his luxurious new summer residence in the High Desert.Sep 18, 2021
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Contemplating the fate of Castoroides683 viewsSandie laments the extinction of the giant beaver Castoroides, thinking it might have provided her with a fine fur coat in its heyday, and wondering if we're next.Sep 18, 2021
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Beaver Behemoth674 viewsCastoroides was one of many megafauna to roam North America in the Pleistocene, sharing the landscape with mammoths, mastodons, and saber-tooth cats, who wound up gobbling up so many of the Castoroides that both went extinct.Sep 18, 2021
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A Giant Beaver Exhibit634 viewsThe Beaver exhibit includes a table devoted to a 220-pound beaver, Castoroides ohioensis, who went extinct 10,000 years ago. Modern beavers are grateful they don't have to compete with this behemoth.Sep 18, 2021
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Gert the Grey Fox694 viewsA tree-climbing fox who was hired by the Museum in 2020 and has proven to be a big draw. Sep 18, 2021
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Fortunate Fox724 viewsAlthough foxes are members of the Canid family, they share many of the traits of cats, such as the propensity to sleep all day. Gert thinks it's pretty cool to be able to make her living doing almost nothing.Sep 18, 2021
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Mattox Winter Home806 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 Town711 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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