T'Hunters Give Away Some Secrets

"Searching for treasure isn't only for movie characters. Real-life adventure hunters have unearthed treasures worth thousands of dollars in their own backyards.

Take Tim Saylor and George Wyant, who have their own metal detecting-themed company called Anaconda Treasure. By day, Saylor writes software for an insurance company and his friend Wyant is a copper miner. But on weekends, the Montana men have taken metal detecting to a whole new level.

'We're not exactly normal,' Wyant said. 'We don't think fun and comedy and treasure detecting have to be mutually exclusive.'"

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Montana Bullet Finders

"Blue Mountain probably wasn't named for all the blue grenade rounds in its grasslands, but it could have been.

Blue was the color indicating a practice load for military training exercises that took place for 50 years on the mountainside south of Missoula. This week, guys in bright yellow vests are prowling the recreation area looking for those old munitions and perhaps more dangerous explosives.

"This is one of the suspect areas we're definitely going to investigate," said Weston Solutions project supervisor Rick Logsdon, who leads the dozen-man unexploded ordnance team."

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Image Credit: Michael Gallacher / Missoulian

William Clark Canoe Camp

"River crossings and lousy weather didn’t dampen the spirits of an intrepid corps of Montana State University Billings students searching for traces of William Clark along the Yellowstone River.

The students in history professor Tom Rust’s Historical Archaeology in the Americas class have been hunting for the camp where Clark and his band of explorers stopped for five nights in July 1806 to make canoes from lofty cottonwood trees along the banks.

On a recent wet, chilly day, seven students and Rust crossed a short stretch of the Yellowstone to a privately owned island in search of Clark’s canoe camp."

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Image Credits: David Grubbs / Billings Gazette