The Mammoth dig is what is left of a sinkhole spring into which mammoth's occasionally fell and were unable to get out. It is quite a collection of bones, interestingly all male mammoths. Our guide suggested that was because males were expelled from the herd by the matriarch, and wandered around by themselves. I was thinking of sexist jokes such as the men were so stupid that they fell in and could not get out. These were mostly Columbian mammoths, larger than today's elephants. Marianne is standing in a replica of a hut used by Siberian natives, using mammoth bones for a frame, as they had no wood on the tundra.
We had lunch in the popular Dale's family restaurant, with cute decorations, such as a deer driving a car with a hunter draped across the hood. The food was not great, however.
The Pioneer museum is a hodgepodge of old stuff, ranging from a doctor's office to barbed wire to telephones and musical instruments. Not too different from many local historical museums, but better than most. It is in a multi-story grade school, built out of local sandstone more than 100 years ago.
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