there were so many animals, so many invertebrates that were taken off of public land, taken internationally, sold internationally. way more than we could have ever investigated. the case was never wanting for not having sue.
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i m happy with that. and, you know, that was the most that any landowner had ever gotten. we shook hands, and he was pretty excited about seeing it set up in the museum. last phase of getting sue out of the ground, we used basically egyptian techniques to get this large block. i mean, we had one of the blocks weighed probably something close to 10,000 pounds. there was probably about that we had to load up. once we had the skull and pelvic block and the tail vertebrae and everything else, we knew we could haul a lot of the stuff on our bobcat trailer. we had no idea how we were going to be able to get all these other things. well, my brother john had built a tandem-axle trailer earlier that year.
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when i was prepping sue, i was cloistred like a monk in the back corner of the back building. doing preparation, you just just leave me alone, right? but everybody was in there. there would be schoolkids in there. or another day, there d be, you know, some scientist guys coming along in there. i mean, pete had, like, 30 scientists working on a major new monograph on tyrannosaurus rex, so you got to suck it up. pete wants it this way. he wants this specimen available to everybody. it was so beautiful. just the preservation was incredible. it was just, wow. everybody knew about sue. we hadn t made any secret of the fact that we d collected her. we had 2,000 visitors sign this little guest book that went way in the back in our warehouse to see the skull of sue. i was just totally flaber
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that we have. well, it s not the only one. almost. almost. and it s not. not completely. maurice williams never intended to sell that fossil. 123450 maurice williams knew exactly what he was doing. maurice williams knew exactly what he was doing. known you were on his ranch, we would have warned you. i had known people who knew maurice and sharky, and they were colorful and controversial figures in their own right on the cheyenne river reservation. there began to emerge some controversy about sue being collected from indian land and the ownership issue.
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