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Message:: [QUOTE="bosko69, post: 4504841, member: 16283"]This is cut from the Trees of Mystery website- The End of the Trail Collection is attached to the north end of the Trees of Mystery gift shop and is one of the largest privately owned world class Collections there is.What you see in our Collection is the culmination of a dream that began over 30 years ago.The mission and scope of the End of The Trail Private Collection could hardly be explained any better than they were in the words of Marylee Thompson Smith, the main collector and person most responsible for its existence, spoken on the day it opened, on March 10, 1968:“Dear Friends, Welcome! What you see here in our Collection is the culmination of a dream that began over 30 years ago when I became interested in the ancient and modern cultures of our “First Americans”.    I guess Museum quality artifacts were affordable during The Depression (She started Her collection in 1938). Maybe Marylee just put ads in newspapers of the time-'Gunther's Island Slave Killers Wanted-will buy one or a thousand items-cash paid'.  I dearly hope they have a 'Mission Impossible' level security system protecting this irreplaceable collection.[/QUOTE]