>>2466407I recognize graves by their size and shape, just like bottle diggers do. I won't dig them up, nobody does. I just keep an eye out for something that looks like an old outhouse pit but longer and narrower. Some of them are marked. Some have stones piled on top. Some have fences around them. Some are just pits in the ground that nobody has dug up.
Yeah, the wild west was actually pretty wild. I research the stuff I find in old newspapers, and those days they had a murder or a gun fight almost every month. Saloon brawls were a daily thing. It was a bit nuts in some of those towns.
What's the lump of metal above the pull tab? I have a bucket full of random metal sitting in the garage, about half of it is silver. Other half is lead solder spills or bullet cast drippings.