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Article: Winter sports enthusiasts find comfort, warmth in yurts.
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- November 19, 1998
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This camper remembers spending some mighty cold nights in the northlands of New England, despite the protection of a good sleeping bag and a high-tech tent or, in some instances, a three-sided log shelter.
Why, I now ask myself, didn't they have yurts back then?
Well, they did. And way, way back. Asian tribes from Mongols to Huns lived in yurts.
The tepees developed by North American Indians (whose ancestors migrated here millennia ago from Asia) were yurt knockoffs. Large, with vertical side walls and diagonal panels leading to a small opening at the top, yurts were easy to construct, easy to move _ and most important, very warm.
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