#title Stone Spearhead Found by Youth
#author The Melstone Messenger
#date 15 Sept 1932
#source The Melstone Messenger (Montana). <[[https://mthspublic.newspapers.com/article/the-melstone-messenger/208964642/][mthspublic.newspapers.com]]>
#lang en
#pubdate 2026-10-25T00:30:42
#topics old news stories, Wyoming, archaeology, indigenous

When young Bob Hammond of Casper, Wyo., recently picked up a stone to chase away a bear, he did not realize that he held a missile which Indians used in the distant past as ammunition.

Before he threw the stone he looked it over to note its peculiar shape. Then rather than use it on the bear, he took it to the ranger station at West Thumb in Yellowstone National park, and there it was identified as an old Indian spearhead. Beautifully formed, the four-inch weapon has been placed in the Mammoth museum.

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