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Bagging a badger299 viewsAs Bigelow emerges from his burrow, a nice lady awaits to nab him with a necktie before he can escape.
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Lakeside Shelter286 viewsNorthern Paiute campground, first stop in the Spirit of the West exhibit.
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Pet Haven280 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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Vintage Truck279 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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The Cowboys are the Indians277 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.
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Poking along276 viewsPokey the Porcupine ambles casually onto the stage, slouching his ungainly way toward his appointed post.
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Deja vu all over again274 viewsThe nice lady guides Bigelow back around to the ramp so he can do his routine all over again.
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Beaver Behemoth272 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.
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Bigelow Burrows272 viewsBigelow's job was to demonstrate his digging prowess by tunneling through the dirt blocking the exit from the glass box. Note: I'm just making up these animal names; I don't remember what their real names are.
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Pokey con-descends270 viewsHe did climb down from his perch nimbly and unaided, and now he munches contentedly on a treat while his buddy extolls his virtues and elucidates his lifestyle.
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High Desert Housing269 viewsA traditional Native American tipi, in front of a regular reservation house of the type that replaced it.
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Boom Town265 viewsNew settlements sprang up in support of the mining boom of the mid-19th-century. This one is called Silver City.
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