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Breaking sod on the prairie would have been a whole lot easier with a pair of computer- balanced oxen hitched to the plow. That's what kids will encounter in the Minnesota History Center's new "Then Now Wow" exhibit, where they can lean into the ox yoke and heave-ho themselves. Walking on treadmills submerged in a little hill, kids can pretend to be a farmer guiding a plow or the "oxen" pulling it. If one is extra strong and starts to pull ahead, the hidden computer will balance the effort requi...
Growing up in a log cabin near Oshkosh, Wis., after the Civil War, Roland Reed envied the tall, slender American Indian boys who slipped through the surrounding forest en route to the nearby Fox River. "I longed to join them," he wrote later, "and as I grew into manhood and left my native state, the call of those old friends of the forests and lakes never left me." By the time he died in 1934, Reed had made hundreds of photos of American Indians with glass-plate negatives he laboriously hauled...