From Sweat Lodges to Snake Oil: A Century of High Desert
Remedies
Faced with the perils of life on the remote High Desert
frontier, pioneers were forced to devise novel ways of gaining
relief from injury and sickness.
Vast expanses of treacherous terrain and the dangers
associated with raising livestock and other animals left the
area’s early inhabitants in dire, constant need of health
care.
Through January 11 in the Spirit of the West Gallery.
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