tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24687965.post1322011025937298903..comments2024-03-01T15:08:01.361-06:00Comments on Church of Choppers Blog: WyomingCHVRCHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15097733136095677539noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24687965.post-44396024628460438312010-10-01T12:06:58.239-05:002010-10-01T12:06:58.239-05:00Yeah, my pappy had some pretty good tales of the W...Yeah, my pappy had some pretty good tales of the West to tell. I really loved poking around the back country of Wyoming. As a kid in the mid to late fifties, we used to go arrowhead and fossil hunting, fishing and camping there every summer. My uncle was the Superintendent of the Johnson County County Roads Dept., had an intimate knowledge of the area and was an ace at finding stuff. He had what was probably the largest private collections of American Indian artifacts in the world. At that time, he had already been collecting for about 30 years. I remember playing with arrowheads, axe heads, spearheads, stone bowls etc. when I was a kid. He literally had boxes upon boxes of stuff stored everywhere there was room to put it in his house. There were boxes under every bed, chair and in every closet as well as an attic stacked full. He was a genuine eccentric and knew where there were many indian burial grounds and medicine wheels, long before any of them were later discovered and mapped by historians. He was always spooked about them and would never mess with or take anything related to death rituals, astrology, magic or to their dead. Over the years, he had several offers from the Smithsonian Institute, who had heard about him via the grapevine, to send some experts out to photograph and catalogue his collection, but he always refused and kept the stuff stashed in cardboard boxes up til he died. The collection passed on to his sons (my cousins), all 3 of them as eccentric as he was, and is still stored in those boxes, untouched, some 80 years after he started collecting artifacts..FXRRRRRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15651472294818451920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24687965.post-62023946054731770182010-09-30T14:33:45.343-05:002010-09-30T14:33:45.343-05:00Other than hot naked chicks this post is one of th...Other than hot naked chicks this post is one of the best ever. It makes me want to ride west. Thanks for sharing.Bobby Hansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05064367417892053173noreply@blogger.com