General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History

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Title: General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 Miner, Roy Waldo, 1875-1955
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history museums
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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tropolitan area aBear Mountain Park. A buck and two doejare exhibited in the group amid the brilliantlcolored foliage of the eastern fall. The Devils Tower in northeastern Wjoming is the scene portrayed as the settinjfor the Mule Deer Group. The next group shows Bison and Prong (oK) horn Antelope on the North Platte River,Wyoming. Vast herds of Bison as shown hereformerly roamed from the Appalachians to:he Rockies and from Mexico into the Ca-ladian Northwest. A prairie dog is pokingts head out of a burrow, and cowbirds areissociated with the bison. Around the corner is the Musk Ox Group.Well equipped for life in the rigorous arcticregions with their long, dense coat of furand hair, these animals are at home in theblizzard in northern Ellesmere Land. Both Black-tailed and Antelope Jack Rab-bits may be seen next, on the lower slopes THE MUSK OX is now restricted to certain parts of Artie America, though in the Ice Age itranged over most of Europe, Asia, and what is now the United States
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of the Rincon Mountains, southern Arizona,among saguaro and barrel cactus, ocotillo,and other desert plants. The Rocky Mountain Goat Group ex-hibits a billy, a nanny, and a kid on a moun-tain in southern Alaska, overlooking a beauti-ful fiord, the Endicott Arm. The Osborn Caribou Group has as background the mountain grasslands of northenBritish Columbia. These caribou move dowiinto the forest during heavy storms, but d