PotBelly Jim
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Good point. That pokes a hole in my theory, then.
What do you think happened?
I have no idea Just pointing out what I saw in the photos of Tex gathering up what was left of Ruth's bones and stuff. Could've happened like SH said? Or perhaps Ruth dropped right where they found most of him? I'm skeptical of "Ruth stories" that originated with Dutch Hunters, tho, as it seems their stories of Ruth's disappearance and later discovery, fit right nicely with their own theory of where the LDM is. I think all the old timers had their own version of events, the "Gassler Manuscript" and "Cox Notes" being just two.
For example, the Gassler story doesn't make much sense to me, as we're to believe that Tex moved Ruth's body from Peter's Mesa to keep Dutch Hunters from scattering cattle...so he moves it to...an even more valuable piece of his range, one that has good water nearby and is essentially where many trails converge in the western Supes (most trails in those mts went to/by reliable water). A place where his cattle are likely to stay comfy and relatively easy to round up? Then what does he supposedly do? After all that trouble of moving Ruth's body to keep dutch hunters off Peters Mesa, he turns around and tells a dutch hunter to go look for the LDM on: Peter's Mesa.
Not that I know what happened, of course