reserve price that by clayton and his partners. the result, no sale. unlike the folks who cashed in on the world famous t-rex tooth, clayton walks away empty-handed. i hope i m not out of line expecting to get paid what we went into it. clayton believes he will eventually get that and more. we all feel the fall of the economy hampered things for sure. so back on the range, he continues to raise cattle, search for fossils and tinker in his lab waiting for his big find to pay off. if one day however those dueling dinos unearthed make him rich, i m betting the path of clayton s life still circles back to this piece of montana. i m living the dream.
here. a part of me i did not want to part with. clayton grew up and learned to cowboy here on the ranch his father shared with three brothers, describes it as cash-poor but reasonably successful. mid did worked us hard my dad worked us hard but that was a good thing. jamie: the ranch is flit up, at age 24, clayton inherits 1100 acres and 30 cows it may sound like a lot. but to make a decent living these days, he would need 10 times that much land, and about 500 head of cattle, 40 acres for each cow. i always tell me, this place isn t big enough. it every cowboy s dream to have their own place. we re saddleing up. step on my knee with your right leg.
my wife is from minnesota, it has been a culture shock for her, it is 120 miles to the nearest movie theaters, old-timers would say that country is hard on horses and women. jamie: in 1998 their first child julie is born, a cowgirl flew through and through. another mouth to feed, you know what am i going to do. jamie: ratchets up the pressure on clayton to make the ranch financially viable now. a way to buy enough land to raise cows for a living. jamie: clayton runs into a stranger who was prospecting near the bad lands. he said this might sell for $500, it was a fragment of bone. they were fossils, from giant beasts who lived here eons ago.
knowledge of dinosaur bones and his ability to find them. the only way you can find fossils is with your eyes, only way you do that is get out on foot, and walk the out crops, a guy like clayton can solve problems. clayton offers to show a new york gal how it s done, starts with a safety lecture. any snakes 1234. rattlesnakes, and mountain lions, on the crest of a hill, you could step on a cavity, and fall 30 feet down. you moved dirt you might find one. jamie: what is that? a little end of a limb bone to a plant eater. you can see the end. jamie: this is bone. most likely a rib. jamie: i can see why they call him dino cowboy, and how you
could get hooked on fossil hunting, it is the feeling you get picking something out of the dirt, and let s leading it was part realizing it was part of a living, breathing bemoth years ago. i am thinking that whole family has some dino radar. this looks like a rib. jamie: just the first few minutes clayton s youngest, luke, finds a rib. i am having a blast can i keep looking, is it wood? that is bone. jamie: i found part of a leg bone. slowly but surely there is a whole dinosaur. it came off this hill somewhere. jamie: we found a spot worth looking into. for sure. jamie: clayton knows there is dino gold somewhere in these hills. highest selling fossil that i know wases there are si dollars.