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Mattox Winter Home816 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.)
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Poking along789 viewsPokey the Porcupine ambles casually onto the stage, slouching his ungainly way toward his appointed post.
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Pokey goes vertical783 viewsHe may seem to be awkward and clumsy on the ground, but boy can this dude climb. He could teach a cat a thing or two!
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Vintage Truck783 viewsThis pre-WWII Chevy truck belonged to the Forest Service. They used it to fight fires and rescue porcupines stuck in trees.
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High Desert Housing773 viewsA traditional Native American tipi, in front of a regular reservation house of the type that replaced it.
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Life on the Frontier769 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.
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Pet Haven765 viewsThe Museum kindly provides a shaded area with kennels for visitors to safely put up their pets while touring the Museum.
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Hudson's Bay Co. Fur Trapper Camp764 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.
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Deja vu all over again743 viewsThe nice lady guides Bigelow back around to the ramp so he can do his routine all over again.
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Bagging a badger743 viewsAs Bigelow emerges from his burrow, a nice lady awaits to nab him with a necktie before he can escape.
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Fortunate Fox737 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.
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Lakeside Shelter728 viewsNorthern Paiute campground, first stop in the Spirit of the West exhibit.
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