Posts tagged as “gary ziegler”

 Just a year ago, the Tribune reported a sig­nificant archeological find—a hand laid rock formation, possibly Ute, marking either trail direction or a sacred place—on the sprawl­ing Bear Basin Ranch property east of the towns. Then this spring, the Tribune published an account of the ranch owner and opera­tor, extreme archeologist and former Custer County acting Sheriff Gary Ziegler, literally stumbling across a Paleolithic projectile point. Now, as yet another reminder of our living on lands once freely wandered by Native Americans, Ziegler has added an additional site to his catalogue of probable Ute stone constructions scattered across Bear Basin Ranch. A few weeks ago, on his daily jog along cattle trails, he was caught up by a stone formation he has often passed, both…