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Seeing Baker City in some of its earliest photographs depicts a stark main street, more than sepia can convey, with nary a bush, tree or flower to be seen along the historic row.
It was a dangerous time to be any kind of vegetation, nibbled to nothing by commonplace horses, sheep, deer and cattle, the city itself predating barbed wire.
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