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Mattox Summer Home689 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 Castoroides655 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 Behemoth661 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 Exhibit608 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 Fox655 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 Fox704 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 Home775 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 Town687 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 storefronts585 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 Mine691 viewsNot a cafe.Sep 18, 2021
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Life on the Frontier732 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 Accoutrements675 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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