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...simple life in the bus. But she turned the front den into a classroom to home school Noah and the other kids. When they studied horses, they read Black Beauty and went riding real ones. When they were learning about Indians, she crafted a cardboard diorama including pretend deerskin stretched across twigs. To show off musical instruments, they paraded as a marching band in front of the video camera so Daddy could see them. She insisted on buying extra workbooks to expand their home-schooling curriculum. "You make it difficult on yourself," Rusty says he told her. "You're making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yates Odyssey | 7/26/2006 | See Source »

...sometimes both at once. Years later, Heye described his conversion experience as a collector: "One night I noticed the wife of one of my Indian foremen biting on what seemed to be a piece of skin. Upon inquiry I found she was chewing the seams of her husband's deerskin shirt in order to kill the lice." He bought the shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Place To Bring The Tribe | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

...people-finding-their-pews pace, and three candles glow calmly in the corner. He kneels in the middle of the room. Ignoring him, the dominatrix works at a table laying out a fan, a piece of possum fur, a prickly teaser made of yarn, a hemp rope, a deerskin flogger and kangaroo-hide cat-o'-nine-tails. Finished with her preparations, the mistress turns, walks over to the submissive and grabs the skin at the back of his neck, as a mama cat might lift a kitten. "Stand for me," she commands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Love | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...aseball. Apple pie. The bald eagle. From April 27 to 29, the Bayside Expo Center. Yes, nothing says America like 270,000 square feet of leather-wearing, gas-guzzling, beef-jerky-eating motorcycle show. From the deerskin bustiers to the evangelistic "Riders for Christ," the Great American Motorcycle Show makes you want to put on that American flag do-rag and sing "The Star-Spangled Banner." Any red-blooded American should be proud to shell out their eight dollars to see the latest in Japanese motorcycle technology...

Author: By Richard D. Ma, | Title: It's a Chopper, Baby | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

...Billy definitely earns my Deerskin Rug award for being the biggest stud in the meet," Co-Captain Chris Smith said. "He and the freshmen just knocked the competition out of the bejeezus belt...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Aquamen Drown in Easterns Despite Final Day Comeback | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

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