I really enjoy your stories!!!
The Indian burial you mentioned in your "West Pasture" story made me think of one that I read about in a very early St. Francis paper, probably 1906, telling about one that was found, and a doctor sent the bones home--to Iowa!!! At the time there was some speculation that it was Roman Nose, but I am quite sure it was not.
Janetta Evins and I went out to the place, on the Hackberry, south of Ochsners. I found part of a jaw bone, it even had some teeth in it!! We took it in to Dr. Cram, Janetta's brother-in-law, and he confirmed that it was indeed a human bone! Later, my Dad, Forrest Scrivner asked me to let a teacher in Haigler see it and check it out--alas, I never got it back, let alone any information about it! I guess it would have just been here in the museum, and we still wouldn't know any more about it anyway. There must have been quite a few burials around--oops, I guess they put the bodies on a scaffold first, then in a hollowed out spot, they didn't really bury their dead.
The Indian burial you mentioned in your "West Pasture" story made me think of one that I read about in a very early St. Francis paper, probably 1906, telling about one that was found, and a doctor sent the bones home--to Iowa!!! At the time there was some speculation that it was Roman Nose, but I am quite sure it was not.
Janetta Evins and I went out to the place, on the Hackberry, south of Ochsners. I found part of a jaw bone, it even had some teeth in it!! We took it in to Dr. Cram, Janetta's brother-in-law, and he confirmed that it was indeed a human bone! Later, my Dad, Forrest Scrivner asked me to let a teacher in Haigler see it and check it out--alas, I never got it back, let alone any information about it! I guess it would have just been here in the museum, and we still wouldn't know any more about it anyway. There must have been quite a few burials around--oops, I guess they put the bodies on a scaffold first, then in a hollowed out spot, they didn't really bury their dead.
I found many arrowheads, scrapers, and pieces of flint in the hills and I found two kinds of pottery, some very early along the state line, and some made much later, on Indian Hill as we called it--was north of where you lived. It was the highest point in the northern tier of Kansas counties! Years ago (before I was there), there was a little building? noting that it was the highest point. How I loved prowling those hills. You have made me want to go out again to do some looking!
Now if you hear of some old woman being lost out in the hills, it may be me!
I love your things about Haigler, it was a great place to grow up in!
Marilyn (Scrivner) Holzwarth
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