- After I'd found the small rib bones in the gravel and got through that, and then I cut a long tusk into length ways.

- Dad came across the bones in his work on this hill in June of nineteen seventy four.

I was taking some Earth Science classes, including some paleontology classes at Chadron, and including a class under Dr. Larry Agenbroad.

And he, as fate would have it, had shown me a mammoth tooth in the spring semester, soon before dad came across the bones in 1974.

And 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 a toe of 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.