The interesting background of the massive Sequoia tree known as Mark Twain that was cut down in 1891
Located in what is known today as Kings Canyon National Park (east of Fresno, California), lies the forest holding some of the most biggest and largest trees in all the world. Here is where the popular Big Stump can be seen. This massive stump that reaches a whopping diameter of 52 feet, once held an enormous sequoia tree nicknamed "Mark Twain", after the actual writer Mark Twain visited the stump and instantly became fascinated with the gigantic size and was inspired in writing about it.
This is the Porsmose Man.
His corpse was discovered in 1946 near Nęstved (Denmark). He was found with a 105mm-long arrow that entered his skull through his nose - the tip got stuck there and protruded into the oral cavity.
Another arrow was found through his chest: it pierced the man's upper sternum and most likely injured his main artery.
The man is assigned to the Middle Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture. According to the description in the Danish National Museum, however, the type of bony tip corresponds to the end-Neolithic individual grave culture.
Here is a photo of the "New Mexico Museum Of The Old West," 8 miles east of Moriarty, New Mexico on Route 66 that was taken by a tourist in about 1956. Many a youngster became enthralled by the Old West with the help of this museum. It was part of the Texas Longhorn Ranch. It was opened in 1940 by Capt. William A. ("Bill") Ehret was a former patrolman from Lincoln Co., NM. He operated it for many years with his wife.
It grew into a formidable complex that welcomed travelers after the long lonely and boring trip across the desert from Santa Rosa. The Ranch included not only a motel, garage, service station, and an Indian trading post with curios, it even had a museum, an imitation cowboy town, Indian dances, and a real Concord Stagecoach once used to carry mail and passengers across the Wild West.
The last we heard, all of it is gone except for their sign.
