YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT WE FOUND ON THE OREGON TRAIL! Metal Detecting Military Campsite
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- I have to say this may be the most amazing metal detecting hunt I have ever posted on UA-cam. Jim, Garrett, Wayne, and I got onto a spot along the Oregon Trail and we discovered a military campsite that goes back to around the 1850s. We found some incredible relics and time period coins. Be sure to watch this one through and share with your friends! HH! -Zach
All finds were made on private property with the permission of the landowner.
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Oregon Trail Interpretive Center Park Ranger here...love this thank you for posting this.
Hearing you young men being so respectful to each other and mostly, the thanks that you gave to our Lord, just melts this old ladies heart! God bless you and happy hunting!
Thanks so much! God bless
@@GreatOutdoorsDetecting I wish some of you guys would be more careful when you get excited. Using OMG, except in deliberate prayer or worship is taking the Lord's name in vain. I'd hate to see anyone have to account for those careless words when the Judgment Seat of Christ takes place. Thanks!
@@mitchmiller2382 lol
@@crashjz LOL?
And no cursing! Awesome!
I just happened across this and the thing that stuck out was how much enthusiasm, joy, and excitement your youngers show. The respect was the icing on the cake.
The collective knowledge base you have going is very cool
Much respect to the 'dad' for his knowledge and for being out there.
What a treasure trove
I am 80 years old, it's wonderful to see you guys out there enjoying yourselves and praising the Lord with such wonderful finds.
Thanks Tony!
Hi Tony!
@@GreatOutdoorsDetecting I thought I heard someone say an item had a mint mark O. Where is that?
@@kevint9702 New Orleans
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Sitting here on a cool Fall day in colorado OBSESSED with videos on the Oregon trail. Watching so many and I’m drawn in an unexplainable way. My Ancestry reveals my 5th great grandfather was one of the original journeyman of the Oregon Trail. So cool!!!! Thx for a great video guys! God bless your journeys…🙌🏼🙏🏻
Same, I'm watching from Aurora.
Are you mormon?
Just found u and subbed. I've been detecting for over 35 yrs and I have lost so much hope for another generation of diggers with morals and respect. It is so bad in north central Texas that I gave up detecting for 7 years. People not asking permission, fence jumping and coming into sites at night. So good to hear you respecting each other and thanking the lord. Keep it up, I am proud of you
Thank you! I am from north central Texas also. I used to live in Denton county and metal detect around there. Where are you at?
Fence jumping is quite a risk here in Texas, I'm surprised people are dumb enough to do that.
Really? Fence jumping just to metal detect? I didn't think metal detecting was popular enough for people to want to do that.
Thanks for doing the clear 'stills' after each find. That's really cool for us viewers.
YES!
I agree
I have a metal detecting youtube channel that I'm just starting. Do u think it is better to put a pic of the coin after finding each one or put all the pictures at the end of the video?
@@dustind.5246 Well, it's always nice to see the coin cleaned up right after the find. But I'm sure that takes a lot of editing. So if your just starting out, you can always show the cleaned coins at the end of the video. Of course if you have the talent, then show the cleaned coin right away. Of all the videos I've watched, this was the best format I've seen.
@@redwolf8539 ok I will do that in my next video! Thank you for the input. My channel is called Desert Diggers if u wanna check it out
Love your enthusiasm and happiness for one another!
Thanks Ron!
I would like to just see normal behavior without tv energy. Not much of that on yt anymore
@@jgunther3398 - YT is beginner Hollywood - you know "dude" 😉👍
Brother....you're a man amongst men. Why? Because at 6:56 you had the "stones" to say out loud and with heartfelt meaning "THANK YOU LORD!". That means everything to me to see/hear a person do that when they've had a bit of good luck come their way. I'm 66, been saying/acknowledging out loud to The Lord for decades....and when I say that, I don't at all mean to infer that I'm any better than any other human walking around. I didn't always have that frame of mind, and am so thankful to The Lord that he stuck by me when I was a pretty miserable person in this life. And my guess is that all your buds in this video are the same type of good men as you are....God Bless you all. I sure enjoyed this vid. Makes me want to take up this hobby. I've always been into being by myself and wandering around fields and such looking for arrowheads and pottery sherds. Regards from Tucson, Arizona.
And none of them said any curse words! Unusual in this day and age and very refreshing!
Bless both your hearts. Praise God. Loads of love and light always and forever.
That was an amazing find. Congratulations on finding an area so rich in history.
In the early 70s My Father and I would often side track from wherever we were going and ride sections of the Oregon trail in Wyoming. At that time, there were still recognizable items laying on the ground...mostly larger furniture. Even at my young age, I felt sad to see part of some ones dream that had to be left behind to lighten the wagon for South Pass.
Thank you for bringing back old memories of my grandpa used to do show me old stuff he used to keep who's passed on been a long time ago God bless you guys and keep God in your hearts my dad would be here you make say how proud of you guys he is never let God out of anything you do God bless all of you keep up the great work you do
Gentlemen, what a successful expedition! Fascinating that you found so many minié balls in the one spot. it was used by the Army in the 1861 Springfield rifle during the Civil War, so that may help to date your finds. Makes sense to me that the Army would camp up on a bluff so that they could oversee and command the area from a defensible spot. So many buttons too...wonder if there was a skirmish, or ? I have an idea for y'all. Get some tracking tape like hunters use when they want to mark a blood trail, or surveyors tape used in construction sites. Get a bunch. of sticks or stiff wire or even chopsticks and whenever you guys find something, mark it with a flag. It would have been interesting to see an overhead view form the drone and see if there was some kind of pattern. You could even color code them for coins, buttons, weapons, etc. Keep it up guys, what a great site you found!
This to me is one awesome idea, I would love to see it also. :)
Mr. Mary Sunshine Thanks! That’s a really good idea!
EXCELLENT suggestions, wonder if these guys share ANY of their finds with the landowner as thanks??
My thought also. Looks like a good spot for a campsite.
I was thinking the same thing! I would love to see this. If you placed a flag, like the ones surveyors use, in each place you find a relic, record the location with your drone, I'd bet you could put together a recreation using the computer.
Congratulations on the fantastic finds!!!! You all were tearing it up! A great video! Surely a day to remember for a long time.
Thanks Brian! Yup this was a day we will never forget!!
The more they discover these things the more they discovered the history of that area. This is what makes it so amazing about what they're doing cuz it helps to link the historical value of the area to the lives of people that were there and why and what happened to them. As well as the era. I think it would be nice for mr. Wother a forensic archaeologist to survey this area historically and physically find out about the historical events of this area. It doesn't look like it a Battlefield simply because of all the unused ammunition yet the buttons found seem to indicate left uniforms and possible bodies left or recovered at one time. Maybe a small skirmish at one time happened here. Now this is just speculation on my part.
Ain't no tellin but looks like fun to me
These all great finds these young men congratulations to them and God bless them always and abundantly
Grouse finds guys. I'm an Equinox user from Australia and can appreciate the passion and the excitement you guys show when you find a good silver etc. Have been watching the series 1883 so now understand what the "Oregon Trail" is/was. Ripper stuff fella's 👍
Aw NICE, daaang you guys are finding so much good stuff. Oh how I love when you get a find, you can hardly contain yourself.
Congrats to all of you, amazing finds! Preserving that history, bravo.
Love the fact that you guys honor the lord. Not cussing, so very refreshing.
I've got to say this may have been the best Intro seen yet , grabbed me right off the bat !
Thanks Mark! That means a lot to hear that!
No false headliners needed. The truth is in your work. Kudos for not leading with false advertisements. The Lord will reward your honesty.
Dude, you so won me over when you said, "Thank you Lord!". You are such a dear!
First time here and was not disappointed you guys had some of the most amazing finds I've ever seen.
What great, healthy, fun and educational hobby. Graet of you you guys, and God bless and protect you.
Thank you!
these guys really are thankful for what they are finding
One of the most enjoyable dig videos I've ever watched. Congratulations!
Thanks Gary! It means a lot to hear that!
Holy smokes! That's a hunt of a Lifetime. Did any of you swing on the banks of the creek below the bluff? If it were summer and I was there, you'd find me hunting in the water!!
Thanks Danny! We haven't done that yet but we need to!
Lots of Great finds!!! I got a kick out of all the drops, watched it twice!! Congrats on the Dragoon!
Thanks Lee! Glad you enjoyed it so much!!
Wow! Amazing, you guys are on to an amazing spot. If you have the permission access you could be hunting out at that site for years. What a great spot. Great finds. Congratulations. I love finding Civ era history. Good job. -Chris
WOW!!!! Y'all just had a dream day in the metal detecting world!!!!!! Congrats!!!!
Wow Zach!! Absolutely amazing! Thanks for bringing us along
Thanks so much Nate! Glad you enjoyed!
Spectacular finds for sure! If the items could only speak! What a story they could tell! Thanks for sharing!
For each and every mile of that trail , those who know say a person died and are buried out there ! Sad and tragic but that's the price some paid , what they hoped would be a better life !
Great video guy's ! You get two thumbs up !
May the GOD'S THAT BE keep you and yours safe and healthy , much positivity to you all !! XXX
Thanks and glad you enjoyed!
@Steven Wyatt thanks for those stats ! I do understand the many ways people died as they moved across the country . I found a journal by a woman that made that trip and found it very interesting . Thank you again and always keep you and yours safe and healthy XXX
The whole country, indeed the whole world, is EXACTLY the same way. King Richard was found in a common parking lot.
What a great experience. Thank you for sharing!!!!!
Wow, this is the most exciting dig l've ever watched!!!❤🇺🇸❤
Hi Zach, wow that was one crazy spill you found, congratulations. Congrats also on that awesome US button. Those Rifleman cuff & coat buttons were stunning finds, you were killing it out there. Some fantastic finds, it makes it all worth the wind/rain when you find relics like those. Thanks for sharing, much love. xx💖
Thanks so much Sue!!
Wow, great find you guys and you thanked the Lord too. Awsome ....
You guys are so sweet. I love the way you thank The Lord and get so excited. I’m going to go put my detector together! 😊
200 years from now somebody goes detecting on Hicock45 or Demo Ranch... "Gee, were they prepping for war?" :D
They will find the highpointand it will still fire
No they will think a war was fought
Demo ranch dude I’s a panzy
Lmao. YUP
And then Hickok will hear this and go over to explain to them exactly what really happened.
Congratulations to all of you. Fantastic finds. You guys killed it. On the Oregon Trail myself today. Nothing like your finds, a musket ball and two piece button back with shank. Lots of fun!
Thanks so much! It is a lot of fun hunting on the trail even if you're just finding bullets! We went back this past weekend and Jim found a capped bust dime
One man gets the silver. Another gets his life's quest. Guess it was meant to be. Really enjoyed your experience. Thanks for posting.
Thanks John glad you enjoyed!
@@GreatOutdoorsDetecting What is a ringtale, or a 58?
Nice going, guys. You had me on the edge of my seat. This was a nice haul.
Outstanding! Definitely more to be found there...good luck!
Thanks Gary! For sure...looking forward to searching this site more
Wayne's my hero. Y'all got some great relics for sure, but those coins gave me goosebumps
Me too! I couldn’t believe the condition of some of those coins...fresh 1850s drops for sure. Thanks for watching!
I can just imagine all the off-camera happy dances! Great hunting.
Yes there was quite a lot of that!! Thanks for watching
Wow! I just love watching this! I'm so into detecting! Congratulations!
A beautiful flat field. I have no idea but I try to picture it with probably hundreds of troops with tents and camp fires. :)
Or maybe some ex-soldiers were hired to protect a wagon train. They could have camped out on the higher ground. Maybe the artifacts of the settlers would be the type if thing found in those fields.
For a minute there I thought I was watching Bill and Teds excellent adventure lol. Great find guys!
That many bullets means somebody took stock of their cartridges and they discarded those that had cracked cartridge papers. Very cool find.
@Chris Collins If the cartridge was cracked and the powder was no longer contained then the whole thing was discarded. US Army troops generally did not have a powder flask on their person as they were issued complete cartridges so discarding the broken ones was not an issued. I have found such piles of Minies, Sharps, and pistol bullets out west also.
This all changed in 1866 with the production of the 50-70 cartridge that had a brass case. More expensive to produce and the loss rate due to damage was minimal or even null.
Two hundred years old!
This clip is the best I've seen as far as detecting finds on youtube. You guys did your homework.epic!!
Thanks so much John! That means a lot to hear that from a viewer!
@@GreatOutdoorsDetecting you earned it ,wow! Those are the finds you dream of. You guys turned it into reality! Congratulations .great channel!
Check out Aquachigger he's been metal detecting nearly 40 years.
A wealth of information. Check out his older ones. He found civil war rifles you name it.... He lives in the middle of Civil War country Maryland. Travels the world detecting. You talks if the animal he comes across, trees,camps, interesting peopIe. You'll enjoy him
But his older ones are better.
@@20greeneyes20 ok. Thank you sandy!
This is one of those days you spend with friends that you will always remember and cherish!
Absolutely! I will never forget this day
So awesome, finding that U. S. Button!!! 👍 I love your excitement!! I love old old stuff. To think of that button laying there for way over 150 years!!!
Fantastic finds. Congrats on your treasures.
Thanks so much!
Wow! Amazing finds! You guys had a blast! Big silver, old silver! Great buttons and loved the spur which is a very nice find indeed! Well everything was nice!
Thanks so much!! Glad you enjoyed!
Those pioneers sure lost a lot of buttons. They arrived in Oregon with their shirt and coats flapping in the wind and wondering where they left their small change.
You made chuckle with your comment Geir Balberson.
hahaha!
I'm thinking there could be remains of the poor souls that bones could be near were the bottoms and change are
😂🤣😆😭
Looks mostly military...they also used and had patrols on these trails...
Thanks for sharing this video with us.
What a cracking hunt some well well nice finds top job and that beach looks amzing
Thanks for stopping by!
Wow brings me back to the first big 3 ringer find I hunted many moons ago I was just as excited great work guys
What a site! Congratulations to you all! Hunt of a lifetime! Thanks for sharing
Thanks Steve! Glad you enjoyed
Outstanding. Wayne had one of the most amazing silver days I've ever seen. And that large cent was beautiful. All the coins except the one looked like they arrived new in a payroll to the soldiers lol. The US , D, R and D buttons all in one day. That's so cool. That was a crazy bullet spill. Congratulations to you all. Very cool to watch. Good luck, happy hunting and take care.
Thanks man! Yes virtually all the coins are in amazing shape and look like they were lost in the 1850s. Glad you enjoyed and I look forward to bringing more videos out of this site!
Wow what an amazing hunt from that spill to the Seated half dollar followed by a half dime.
Thanks! Yeah I've never seen anything like that before!
now that is camaraderie good times and true friendship. thank you for caring about history
I've been reading my copy of "The March of the Mounted Riflemen to Oregon in 1849" by Major Osborne Cross again and I think you may have found one of their campsites. Cross speaks of 160 wagons in his quartermaster remuda split into 3 parts. He tells of the emigrant's critters eating all the grass.
That book is a great resource I have it as well. I’ve always been confused by the route they took in it though because they seem to cross into Nebraska territory in far eastern Nebraska based on the rivers and creeks they mention and not where the Oregon Trail traditionally crosses into NE. That’s why I’m not sure if I have ever hunted one of their campsites
@@GreatOutdoorsDetecting we've pulled a few 1850's Rifleman buttons from the Overland in Nebraska. One of the earliest ones we've got,although in bad shape was a pewter eagle button (1830's).
@@GreatOutdoorsDetecting They might have started out around Nebraska City. That was the original location of Ft Kearny.
Y'all had the dream hunt of all dreams, congratulation to each of you!
Thanks Jerry! It truly was a dream hunt. Will never forget this.
That is the field of dreams !!! Awesome finds !!! Merry Christmas
I believe y’all have found more than anybody! I am always amazed at relics found from so long ago. To touch them is to visit the past and all its history.
When they were rebuilding Fr. Chadbourne in West Texas, they found a 5$ gold piece in the dirt around the foundation. Not very deep as well.
Wow, I was getting excited with you, great day and great fun 😊👍
Beautiful finds on a great site.
Thanks glad you enjoyed!
Way to go Zach!!! You guys had a lot of fun and had some great finds!!! Look forward to your next video!!!
Thanks Eddy! Just went back and we have more to come!
@@GreatOutdoorsDetecting Awesome!!!
Got a 1961 Quarter in my change today. Told the girl that quarter is worth around $10.00. She took it back and looked at it, Then gave it back. It's 25 cents.
I love it when they do that. Or you trade them a dime at the coke machine because theirs don’t work
I've had a quarter from 1938 before! Yep, it's really neat to still see old coins still in service! Have some old pennies too.
How exciting Zach!! Congrats to all of you! Hope you are able to keep hunting the Trail for awhile! God bless!
Thanks so much!! It’s been a blast hunting along the trail these past few months and I look forward to doing it more!
Wow! Googled a 1853 "Seated half Dollar", Mint is $3,000, you've found a real nice one! Loved this video. Live in Seattle. Got to get a detector. Learned a lot! Thanks.
The seated half dollar runs $70 on average. These coins are far from mint. Still cool though
Truly hunts of a lifetime!! Congratulations to all of y'all!! Amazing!!
Thanks so much Will! Glad you enjoyed!
First time viewer of your channel and I love your finds! Hitting the subscribe button for sure!
Thanks so much!! Welcome to the channel!
In my dreams!
Wow loved this! My Dad and I used to rent metal detectors and look around the old homesteads on the ranch he worked but we never found anything at all that was exciting. Watching this video made me feel like I was right there sharing all the neat finds with you guys! The one thing I do wonder - how did they come to lose such things as buttons and coins in a relatively small area? The coins especially as I wonder why they would have taken them out of their pockets or coin purses or whatever they used to hold their money? And the buttons...did they just happen to fall off when the soldiers were drilling or hunting? Have always wondered how these things ended up where found. Really great video - thanks for sharing! Will definitely watch for more like this!
That field will be a gold mine for years !
Brings me back to 1988, apple IIEs turned our broom closet into a computer lab where after math wizard, we got to enjoy the rest of the class playing oregon trail....which led me to being a history buff. Which led me to history digging, which lead me here! Great vid, young men!
That's awesome! I have heard of so many people who got into history through the Oregon Trail computer game. They actually made a card game based on the computer game which is pretty fun too.
You have to think there must have been some kind of skirmish fought on the site.
I was thinking the same thing.
Superb finds!this is what metal detecting is all about.
Thanks Lloyd! Yes it is!!
Great dig guys! That must have been a regular stop on the trail for there to be that much there.Keep at it! Listen for small targets too. I found a mint 1$ Gold coin in a dragon camp out that way.
Thanks! That’s awesome! We know it has the potential for gold and are really hoping for one!
just some absolutely killer saves Zach ! a pile of old period bullets and all the old military buttons and old coins . truly historic finds from America’s history on the Oregon Trail . thank you for saving it 💥👍🏴☠️🤠
Absolutely awesome finds by all! Way to go! GL&HH Matt
Thanks so much Matt! Glad you enjoyed
Great video I love seeing these pieces of history coming from the ground 😎👍💪👍🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
Thanks for stopping by man!
dudes hands were shaking the entire time. Got to admit it was fun to watch these geeks get so excited over buttons.
What an awesome place to hunt. Congrats to all of you!
Thanks so much for stopping by!
On my Grandparents farm back at the beginning of the 1900s they found bags of ammo. The ammo supply could have been in bags also and dropped. I read about it at the Seward Museum in Seward NE. There are lots of Oregon trail finds, my Iron bed came off the trail. It was from the fields where they threw items off to lighten the wagons. My Grandpa was still plowing up stuff when I was a kid in the 1960s and 70s. My childhood was enchanted I think
talbertsmom That’s amazing! Did you know I go to college in Seward?
@@GreatOutdoorsDetecting No lol that is really cool. My Grammar was a one room school teacher in Henderson back in the 20s-30s until she married my Grandpa who was 15yrs her junior. He was working with the CCC. His mother "enslaved" her 3 sons who were 14, 15 and 13 by signing that they were old enough to work in the CCC.... another long story... hahaha. But my family was between York and Henderson.
As a child Grammar would take me with her to the Seward museum trying to get it started. I think it was a large room to see and another room with storage, that was 50 years ago lol. I know there were many boxes of things we took. I don't think any of the other grandkids were shown the attic like I was. Grammar has boxes all kept with the year on them. I remember her showing me an elaborate gold 20s flapper dress and ALL of the movie playbills from the first movies shown in Nebraska. I remember all of the heirloom hair pictures, all of the aerial pictures of all the farms in York county, maps of the original plots given out for farms homesteads.
I was the weird child that loved all that stuff. I would sit on the stairs and read all of the old movie magazines the stacks went from base of riser to the ceiling. Guess being out in the middle of no one on a farm you savored the glamour.
I don't remember what they call them but she had 10+ boxes of those pictures you looked thru with a viewer that 3-D'd the pictures. I thought she had taken over some of the boxes to the museum. I remember only one specific to the area and it was a large church that had caught fire.
We lived in many states and only went out to Grammar and Grandpa's once a year every year. We always stayed a week. Grandpa actually found my iron bed out on the trail while plowing with me on his lap. We only found the headboard and footboard and I had to get other railings but his out buildings had tons of things in it he had come across.
Sorry I got to babbling going down memory lane lol. Most people look at NE and just see cornfields, not me! I remember the crop rotations (used to remember their order lol) I know my cousins lost all of anything small Grammar had in the dresser on the front porch lol it would be fun to go find that stuff but when they sold the farm the moron who bought it burned the house down. I bet he never knew that if he had dismantled it he would have found so much history in that attic. It went back to when the first built the house in the1860s.
LOL My worst allergy is Cottonwood hahaha and my Great Great Grandpa had planted tons of Cottonwood's on his homestead because they grew fastest and biggest lol. just some of the stupid things I remember lol.
I am so glad to know there are younger ones remembering history. My son was 26 when he passed in a car accident in May. Before he was 10 I know I had drug him thru and to over 200 museums, civil war reenactments and historic places. I am a firm believer of if you don't know where you are from you will never know where you are going because you want to make sure bad history does not repeat its self.
my email is @yahoo.com
Keep up the great work lol I will stop babbling now hahaha I am disabled and fal into the UA-cam black hole lol but I loved it when I used to metal detect as a kid I had a Compass which still worked but my demon possessed sister threw away in June when she cleaned out my parents house. Some people just aren't real smart hahaha.
OMG I am sorry I am babbling so badly, it got cold and pain shot up... my therapist told me not to stop babbling hahaha and to never erase lol.
Take care and never stop looking down!! 1. it stops you from stepping in the hole 2. it makes you stop and look what is in that hole!!!
talbertsmom Thanks so much for sharing those memories! Enjoyed reading. Wishing all the best,
Zach
@@talbertsmom7667 I enjoyed your post- read it twice. Thank you! :)
Great story Talbertsmom!!! Glad you shared it. Fayetteville, NC is where I call home. Was walking in the woods near my home this morning thinking about how much it had changed.
Really nice, military buttons, coins, bullets. Thanks for sharing.
TY for thanking JESUS.... Means EVERYTHING TO ME! GOD BLESS!
Thanks and God bless!
This was an enjoyable video. This is the first time I've watched your channel, you could say, I stumbled upon it and I'm so glad I did.
This kept me on the edge of my seat expecting another button, silver coin or, bullets. This was very exciting for me.
There's a lot of history there. Just to walk where the Pioneers walked would be a thrill for me.
Congratulations fellas. I'm looking forward to more exciting videos.
Stan
That was pretty awesome!
Thanks Julie!
One of the better diggin videos I have seen recently. Dig it all!!!!!
Pretty cool, makes you wonder about how ecactly thoses items got there
Awesome hunt with all the buttons. That half dollar was something else. Wow, congrats to all!
Thanks Sebastian!!
I'm 72 and I'll take "Dude" and "Bro" all day long from these entheueastic and respectful young men as opposed to "fu__er", "fu__head", "Ahole" etc. from the majority of males in their age group.
I'm excited to see your focus and pure spirit. Contact a good non political university and take some on line archeology courses. Contact the Museum of the United States Army. They can help you research all of this. If there was a fight here it would be a matter of record. They could possibly tell you where the nearest outpost or fort was located. Keep digging but dig with intelligence. You are holding our history in your hands, be our caretakers of that history.
Wish I were with you. God bless.
I’m glad someone like you finally said this. People are getting all over us for saying “dude” a lot because we were really excited but it’s better than most of the filth people say nowadays. Thanks for stopping by!
I subscribed after I saw your video. I do look forward, with great anticipation, to seeing more of your adventures.
You're comment brought tears to my eyes. I think it's the respect and bridging the generation gap. And possibly the resurrection of memories these very enthusiastic young men may have triggered. Whatever it was my soul was moved
Man, what a hunt! Absolutely great finds! And love to hear you thanking our Saviour! Now if Garrett will slow down his bottom feeding.... 😂
You have apparently done due diligence in your research to locate a successful detectoring site with exciting results. This being the Oregon Trail, I hope that a number of your finds would be presented to local museums so the fruits of your finds could be gazed upon by others who also might gleefully express 'dude'. The site and artifact information that you collect would also be valuable to organizations like the Oregon California Trails Association (and probably others). Even though you have permission from the land owner, the 1968 National Trails System Act preserves the trail remains and the artifacts along it. The Oregon and Mormon Pioneer trails were listed in 1978, and the California and Pony Express trails in 1992. So even with local permission, there could be wickets to jump regarding MDing along the trail.
With all that said, some really cool finds!
Thanks George. Yeah we documented everything and are planning on making a short book about the spot actually. We may give some of the items to a local Pony Express museum as well.
What an amazing hunt, congratulations to all of you.
Thanks Dale!
😬 the buttons have to have been on a body 👀. You've found a battle ground! Wish you was marking what and where you might have a great story, or a deadly one! Hope you give some History on here.
Not necessarily Kimberly. In those days soldiers didn't have a change of uniforms if away from their base of opperations like soldiers of today. An army on the move was pretty much using the same clothing as their wagons transported their food and ammunition. Sometimes they carried a bed roll, back pack, waist belts with ammo pouches, canteen, bayonet & scabber, and a heavy musket. Soldiers would often scavenge clothing and equipment from their deceased comrades just to keep going. As clothing in those days were mostly made of wool or cotton, and buttons were sewn with cotton thread. This thread rotted rather quickly and the movements of putting on and off gear would commonly pop buttons. This would be particularly true when hastily preparing for a skirmish. I would have to think that if there had been a body there one would have found numerous other buttons close to the others. I would also think, that unless the ground had been scrapped, a body(s) would have been much deeper.
Thanks, guys! Very cool finds!