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Bigelow Burrows585 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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Hudson's Bay Co. Fur Trapper Camp584 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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Life on the Frontier584 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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Fortunate Fox578 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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Blurry Badger575 viewsA bungled zoom shot of Bigelow the Badger as he circles back for another round of burrowing. (Couldn't change the settings quickly enough to get the right ISO and shutter speed.)
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Beaver Behemoth569 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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Mattox Family RV568 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.).
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The Cowboys are the Indians567 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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Fort Nez Perce563 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.
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Native Pride and Native Sovereignty562 viewsModern Native Americans take pride in their heritage and vigorously assert their sovereignty, which sometimes involves claiming to belong to several different tribes at once.
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Fur Fort Warehouse560 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").
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Native American Handicrafts559 viewsAnother line of business often pursued by Native Americans is the production and sale of traditional goods such as baskets, pottery, jewelry, scalps, etc.
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