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By the 1860s, with cash incentives, they pushed speed to the limit. The 19th-century longboard ski racers of Plumas and Sierra counties in California were the fastest mammals on the continent at the time. The swiftest horses were only half as fast. When snow conditions were right, these early two-legged speed demons rocketed downslope at …
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