At one point during it’s nearly 70 year run, the Meteor City trading post offered tourists a museum of western relics, both real and imagined. The museum has long since vanished. Its fading and disjointed plywood sign, along with a few steer skulls, lie unnoticed in a walled-off storage area behind the trading post. I was able to make this photograph through a small gap in a fence. This museum once provided visitors with a look back into time, and now it, too, has disappeared into the past. This image brings it back to the present in a fragmented yet surprisingly cohesive form. A white diagonal metal pole unites the three long dead steers, while a large log and an enormous rope create a layer linking their skulls to the sign. Perhaps this scene offers us a more authentic look into the past than the museum did.