need me. i ve got this place i want to look at. out there, you need landmarks to find your way around, and i said, okay, it s foggy. you can t see. make sure you don t walk in a circle. and, like, two hours later, i was right back where i started, and i could not believe it. i just couldn t believe it, cause i was, like, trying so hard to walk straight. it was like, i felt really stupid. believe it was the next day we went back with the video camera and just kind of reenacted, you know, how i found her. anybody who had any idea what a fossil versus a rock was would have seen it, cause there was a lot of broken bones dribbling down. about eight foot up the side of the cliff, there were three articulated vertebrae and a couple other pieces of bones sticking out. from the debris pile, i picked up scraps that showed the hollowness and took it with, cause i knew if i went back to where they were working, they wouldn t believe me. we got back after fixing the tire, and we were at the
preparing the fossil. that s about the only ones 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. 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. you could not have discovered this rex in a worse and potentially legally complicated
i could just see these idiots, you know, just try to pack up my dinosaur and take it away and ruin it. how dare they? how dare these people do this? unconscionable. i can t imagine somebody being able to do this here in the united states of america, in a free country. in order to ensure that this dinosaur could be carefully packed up, we helped. it was pretty clear that they didn t know what they were doing. these people didn t know anything. i mean, most of these guys hardly go out in the field at all. what do they know about preparing a fossil or packing it or anything? the larsons were trying to do little bit of negotiating. put sue under lock and key at our place to prevent damage. i said to kevin schieffer, you just tell me and that fossil won t go anywhere. it s not like it s going to disappear in a briefcase. that request was denied. it is clearly a violation under
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up. after we had built pallets underneath the fossil, we were able to scooch some plywood underneath em so that we could move it with chains and come-alongs and get it into the trailers. it was and still is today the most exciting, the most wonderful excavation we have ever done, the most incredible thing we have ever done.