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be expected to research the areas in which they hunt beyond just access and geography.To include all those observations others have made since the early Jesuit and French explorers,right up until today.Upon finding a large copper nugget in the St.Croix,that trail of research led me all the way back to Jonathan Carvers exploration back in the 1700's.In his writings he mentions a trip down the Namagagon and then up the St. Croix.Along both of these waterways he reports evidence of copper and native copper mining sites.While sites that match his description have been found along the Brule.The Namagagon and St Croix deposits remain elusive.Keep in mind too,that the rivers of those days,before logging changed them forever.Were narrower and deeper and easier to ascend than today.They have since been filled with silt and sand from the denuding of the forests along the riverways.So those original mines are now under the water and under much silt ,sand and debris accumulated over some 200 plus years.Where and when you do this kind of in depth seaching.Many of the things you find that seem odd or out of place suddenly make sense.What these intrepid wanderers found out or saw pertaining to Bigfoot creatures is just as buried in their virgin unknowingness of the regions of their discovery ventures as it is to us today.Sometimes these guys did leave us clues in their journals and on their crudely drawn maps.Native legends or unexplained personal sightings of "mermen" creatures and the like.Dig deeper gang,the buried past holds clues to the future and the future of our own quests and safaris as well.