in trust for him without permission of the federal government to begin with. so that s what ended it. fossils are land. judge batty said, actually in his filing that the sale was null and void. he took the position that he had no authority himself to enter into agreement with the black hills institute. peter realized he could not have this fossil back. he was devastated. the judge decided that sue was real estate, sue, the fossil, was real estate.
in 1978, we were going pretty strong. we were selling mostly fossils. we were going out and doing geological exploration. so by 1979, we created this new entity called black hills institute of geological research, incorporated, in the center of the black hills. we got sue back to hill city. we moved the big blocks into the warehouse, actually built a room around where we had put sue, started working on this wonderful fossil. when i was prepping sue, i was cloistred like a monk in the back corner of the back building. doing preparation, you just
fight over sue. officials thought their problems were over when kevin schieffer was replaced. enormous amount of money the government is spending to put one group of people out of business that s so vital to the community. it s been nearly 18 months since sue was seized from this warehouse. allow us some rights. charge us with something, let s go to court and let 12 people decide. i couldn t give them any information to help them incriminate people at black hills institute. they thought i was going to be able to tell them all sorts of terrible things the institute did. they didn t do anything wrong. they talked to my attorney
really surprised me. there were people that i thought were quite reasonable people, who basically said things about black hills that just were not true. there s a difference between the academic perspective of fossil collecting and the commercial perspective. there are some people in this profession that really, truly believe that it is, there s something morally wrong with selling a fossil. i was indoctrinated as an undergrad, that if you don t have a ph.d. you have no right to collect dinosaurs. i heard about the bhi and peter larson collecting fossils and i was told, these are pirates. and i visited pete larson and i visit the black hills institute, and they weren t pirates at all. they had techniques. they taught my crew. they were better than my crew. you have academias and they have these 5 doms and now here s
we were going out and doing geological exploration. so by 1979, we created this new entity called black hills institute of geological research, incorporated, in the center of the black hills. [ power tools ] we got sue back to hill city. we moved the big blocks into the warehouse, actually built a room around where we had put sue, started working on this wonderful fossil. when i was prepping sue, i was cloifterred like a monk in the back corner of the back