The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1924-08-22
Body of Giant Man Found;
Buried Again, But Where?
Alb Ambrose on Trail of Giant
Man That Once Inhabited
Country Near Carson City

Sam Davis, in his history of Ne.
vada, Volume 2, Page 933, speaking
oil the footprints at the Nevada state
prison, said: "There never was any
particular controversy about the mas
todon, saurian or bird tracks. They
were too self evident to admit of
any bubble for even scientists to
quarrel over; and. besides, the mas
todon was considerate enough IN
leave lot of bones, which rendered
his identity undisputable. But the
creature whose tracks resemble hu-
man foot prints was the one who
made the hot trail. Was it a gigan-
TIC man or huge sloth? That is
the question over which the scien-
lists have ragged, and will probably
continue to rage until doomsday, un-
loss the mysterious creature itself
should chance to be found and thus
put an end to the wrangle."
Is the question to be solved at
last? Has the body of the gigantic
man been found and lost again? In
his burial place known within a
range of a few acres? These are
the questions that the knowing ones
are mulling over today and it is
more than probable that a scientific
search will soon be started to clear
away the mystery.
The recent discoveries made in Ne
vada of the workings of the men of
the prehistoric age, has again turned
the eyes of the scientific world to-
ward the Silver State, and while it
may be probable that the Garden of
Eden was not located within the
bounds of the state of today, yet it
is known fact that Adams early
descendants strolled over the hills
and valleys and along the shores of
the great Lahontan sea, before Moses
was crushing the rocks with his
hardwood staff in the desert lands
beyond the river Jordan.
There is a story told, and vouehed
for by one who claims to have had
the story straight from the man who
made the discovery, that the body
turned to stone, of the gigantic man
Of the prehistoric day, lies peace
fully slumbering. on the sand stone,
twelve feet below the surface of the
present day, somewhere on the
Blackwell ranch, few miles beyond
Carson City.
The story is being whispered
around that once upon time, with
in period Of twenty years last
passed, that Blackwell, an old time
resident, then owner of the ranch
which bears his name, started the
sinking Of a well upon his property.
That he cleared away hole some
feet deep, through the washings and
gatherings of the surface, and there
upon the sandstone found the torso
Of what appeared a man. 1t was of
such stature that the sinker of the
well took little time to Uncover
the body-for body it proved to be
of man about nine feet in height.
When the proof was complete to
Mr.. Blackwell that he had burrowed
into the last resting place of this
prehistoric man, he filled his well
again, and smoothed away all traces
of his work, for, as he told his
friend, sit was not for him to dis
turb the sleep of the man who had
rested for ages on his sandstone
couch"
Alb. Ambrose, who for years has
made study of the history Of Ne
vada, believes that the body lies on
the Blackwell ranch, and some day
the funds will be available to make
the search. When this is done and
the body found, scientists will be
able to clear away the mysteries OF
that day and age, of how the men Of
that day lived and loved and passed
away. William Jennings Bryan viii
be able to more competently speak
of the Darwinian theory, and Nevada
will be famed as the spot where the
greatest men of that day, chose to
ramble and TO live and at last to
sleep upon its preserving SOIL
n t..z.looJg ctatpmpntS. Dill