Gallery: Mushroom-Hunting Photos Recall Gold Rush-Era Living

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    *Somphone and his dog Whiskey outside his shack, Crescent Lake mushroom camp, Oregon, 2011.*
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    *Spring boletes, mushroom camp near Sisters, Oregon, 2011.*
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    *Inside Somphone's shack, Crescent Lake mushroom camp, Oregon, 2011.*
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    *Rick and Leo buying matsutake mushrooms Stubby's Fuel Stop, Chemult, Oregon, 2011.*
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    *Ken and Brandon in a mushroom camp near Sisters, Oregon, 2011.*
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    *Mushroom camp on the outskirts of Chemult, Oregon, 2011.*
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    *Somphone picking matsutake mushrooms among the pine trees, Deschutes National Forest, Oregon, 2011.*
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    *Tabletop in a shack, Crescent Lake mushroom camp, Oregon, 2011.*
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    *Abandoned shack A, Crescent Lake mushroom camp, Oregon, 2011.*
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    *Leo buying matsutake mushrooms Stubby's Fuel Stop, Chemult, Oregon, 2011.*
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    *Bam Bam, Crescent Lake mushroom camp, Oregon, 2011.*
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    *Camp shelter.*
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    *Tim and Dawn with boletes they picked at a camp near Sisters, Oregon, 2011.*
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    *Joy with his daughter Belinda in the Deschutes National Forest, Oregon, 2011.*
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    *Phet drying bolete and morel mushrooms in his drying shack, near Sisters, Oregon, 2011.*
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