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| View Original: | One of two dozen or so silhouetted jackalope details on the Jackalope Bridge over the North Platte River in Douglas, Wyoming LCCN2015634081.tif.tiff (6432x5792) | |||
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| Keywords: One of two dozen or so silhouetted jackalope details on the Jackalope Bridge over the North Platte River in Douglas, Wyoming LCCN2015634081.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Forms part of Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Credit line Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; The people of Douglas are proud of Wyoming's Official Mythological Creature the jackalope It's a cross between a jackrabbit and an antelope both abundant in Wyoming which Douglasites point out has authentic antelope horns as opposed to imitators in other places they mean nearby Colorado specifically that pawn off jackrabbits with deer antlers as jackalopes This may be posturing considering the origin of the first known jackalope In the 1930s Douglas Herrick and his brother Ralph who were hunters with taxidermy skills popularized the American jackalope by grafting DEER antlers onto a jackrabbit carcass and selling the combination to a local hotel right in Douglas Wyoming To further muddy the waters a jackrabbit isn't even a rabbit it's a hare And the American antelope is not an antelope It's a pronghorn which just LOOKS like an antelope ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 069 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015634081 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/34000/34065a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 34065 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 34065 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs by Carol M Highsmith Douglas Wyoming Jackalopes | ||||