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Native American Handicrafts438 viewsAnother line of business often pursued by Native Americans is the production and sale of traditional goods such as baskets, pottery, jewelry, scalps, etc.

Essential Equipment for the 21st Century437 viewsThis truck was fitted out to fight forest fires. Soon after our visit, the Forest Service came and repossessed it to help fight the many fires raging in Southern and Central Oregon.

Desert Diorama426 viewsPart of the Spirit of the West exhibit, which offers a walk through time, beginning with a stroll past a Northern Paiute shelter and a fur trapper’s camp, continuing through a Hudson’s Bay Company fort, past an Oregon Trail wagon, through a hard rock mine, then a settler’s cabin and finally the boomtown of Silver City. Warning: Some of the captions for the pictures feature tongue-in-cheek, politically incorrect comments which are made in a spirit of fun and not intended to be taken seriously but which some people will find insensitive, outrageous, and offensive. Persons of tender sensitivities on ethnic, environmental, or animal rights issues may want to skip this section. In other words, if you don't have an easygoing sense of humor, bugger off.

Entry portal425 viewsView of the front entrance to the Museum (the indoor part), guarded by a large bronze stag.

A parking place for Sonja424 viewsAnother view of the house front, with our Subaru Red Sonja parked next to it behind Chuck's truck.

Silver City storefronts424 viewsShop facades on the main street of Silver City. The second floor, of course, houses a brothel.

Assay Office Accoutrements423 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.

Slave Mine422 viewsA recreation of one of the mines where brutal, pitiless overseers worked Native Americans to death in pursuit of greed-driven profits for cold-hearted, uncaring owners, one of whom gloats over his nefarious enterprise at left.

Down the ramp421 viewsBigelow saunters down from the platform after finishing a round of excavation.

Bigelow Boogies!413 viewsIt didn't take more than a couple of seconds for Bigelow to dig his way through that puny pile of sand. He earns his keep!

A Giant Beaver Exhibit405 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.

Bigelow the Badger396 viewsBigelow trots up the ramps to the glass box where he will demonstrate his digging prowess.

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