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Mule Deer First Impressions AD English

El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail

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Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus) “There are quite a few... deer, and these sustain the Indians and provide clothing for them. They prepare and cure the deerskins into excellent chamois leather which they sell in Mexico City for five or six pesos each.” From Friar Alonso de Benavides’s History of New Mexico, 1630. Translated by Baker. H Morrow. The image on this exhibit is a male, or buck, mule deer. It has characteristically large ears and a rack of antlers.

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Audio description of the Mule Deer first impressions wayside in Martineztown.

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