Hi All,
I was just reading Rufus’ thread “Ancient Find” about the nice flint arrow head he’d found. Reminds me……
When I was a kid (circa 1957) there was a little old man who lived across the street from us. He was retired, and besides going to church, he didn't seem to do much but sit on his porch. My Mom urged me to go over and ask him about his "collection". After a week or two, I saw him sitting in his rocker, and wandered over. His "collection" was a couple thousand flint arrow heads he had picked up within five miles of his front porch. The ones he had under glass for you to see were virtually unmarked, undamaged, ready to be remounted and taken into the field. He had walked the banks of the two local creeks after any high water, especially in the spring and picked up what had been washed out. Local farmers would call him when they were doing their spring plowing, and let him walk their newly plowed fields. The gold mine was an eight hundred acre flood plane plowed and planted by a feed lot dairy farmer each year. This site was the location of the winter camp of a local village of Indians. The old gent gave me a very nice flint arrow head as a memento of that visit, and I have it to this day. Do keep your eyes open, there are probably more where the first one comes from!!