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Course, susan, susan just can t handle that. you know, that s a waste of time, right? there was the flat tire. i was like, great. you guys go to town and don t 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 holl ....
pat and i talked about filing suit. you know, we sued the federal government for return of our property. the black hills institute said it purchased the fossil from maurice williams. originally maurice williams said that too, but then he changed his claim, and he said he had not sold the fossil and that he owned it. mr. williams. pete and neal had made a deal with maurice williams for $5,000. on that saturday, the day before we finished getting sue out of the ground, that we gave maurice williams a check for $5,000, that said for theropod sue on the bottom of the check. even though $5,000 may not seem like a lot, it was a lot of money for our company to spend, and no one had ever paid that much for an undiscovered fossil before. we had lots of conversations with maurice williams about what was happening to the dinosaur. he knew that we were going to bring it back to hill city. he was completely in favor of that. he knew about the museum we were building. he knew we were going ....
with that and the other pickup truck that we had there, we were able to load the fossil 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. ....
You can be all right in this quarter section, but if you get off a little bit remember, this is before gps. if you get off a little bit to the wrong place, you might be dealing with a whole another set of regulations. the tribe claimed that because morris williams, being a member of the tribe, had not purchased a $100 permit to sell something, the fossil should be forfeited is and therefore they owned the fossil. and of course the government said that it was government property and that that was because of the trust land issue. the seizure and the subpoena were the brainchild of acting u.s. attorney kevin schieffer. he was a controversial figure, as a u.s. attorney, because he hadn t had a lot of experience practicing law. he had the ability to drive some people crazy. i do have a fair amount of ....