the cabin and mine in Ape Canyon have been found.

[TD-40]

They found artifacts from where the cabin was standing and a short distance away is a gold mine. This is stunning news.

 

[RedHawk454]

nice, this story has always fascinated me

 

 

[norseman]

Very cool!

[Madison5716]

 

Cool! Maybe some day I'll make a pilgrimage. The PG site is first, though!

Edited Saturday at 11:53 PM by Madison5716

[FLY]

I watched the film and the thing I noticed was that they were using metal detectors and found a variety of artifacts. What they didn't find were shell casings.  The story is they were shooting for hours during the siege .  Which leaves me to believe either they are at the wrong site , or the siege at ape canyon was a fabrication

[norseman]

1 hour ago, FLY said:

I watched the film and the thing I noticed was that they were using metal detectors and found a variety of artifacts. What they didn't find were shell casings.  The story is they were shooting for hours during the siege .  Which leaves me to believe either they are at the wrong site , or the siege at ape canyon was a fabrication

Or someone at some point picked up the brass. Common practice with reloading.

[FLY]

18 hours ago, norseman said:

Or someone at some point picked up the brass. Common practice with reloading.

All of them? Even the shotgun shells that would have been stepped on in the dark of the night ?

[norseman]

17 minutes ago, FLY said:

All of them? Even the shotgun shells that would have been stepped on in the dark of the night ?

I believe it happened in 1924? There is a good chance they were using brass shotgun shells. Card board shotgun shells swell in high humidity (Cascades) and plastic shotgun shells were not a thing until the 1960s.