A reader remembers his visit to Mammoth Site:
If I remember the story properly when [my wife] and I went there, a contractor had bought the land for development and found the big bones. He sold the land to the university of South Dakota for $1.00 to make it legal. One of the provisions was to open the site to teaching young kids and anthropology students, t [sic] how to remove fossils properly. Among the things they found were several Colombian Mammoths, Wolly [sic] Mammoths, American lions, and 2 faced bears, ancient sea shells. Well worth the trip!
Mammoth Site remarks they’ve discovered a number of Columbian mammoths as well as several woolly mammoths, which were an Eastern seaboard denizens – apparently Hot Springs marked a meeting point for the related species.
