- Dad one evening, well, June 24th of 74, came home from his work and mentioned that he had a gallon can full of bones in the back of his truck.

And I went and had a look in the back of his truck and there were some pieces of bone in there and the pieces were, gosh, the size of a softball.

And I thought, man, if these are pieces of bone, I wonder what the bones are like?

And it was getting onto evening and it was supper time but I skipped supper and drove right over here.

And I found a couple more scraps, and there was something that looked like it might be a piece of a rib sticking out of a bank and things like that.

And I found down in the tailings from the land leveling, I found some more scraps, but I was getting kind of discouraged because I wasn't finding any major bones.

But right as the light was beginning to fail and I was going to have to drive on home, I turned up something large with the toe my shoe, and it turns out that it was half a tooth.

Well, I pushed the other half up out of the ground and the two halves fit together exactly.

I had one large mammoth tooth there and it was just like the one Dr. Agenbroad had shown me at the college just a few weeks before, in the spring semester.

And of course I was very excited at that and drove right home and got on the phone to Dr. Agenbroad.