Yeah the old timers sure had their pick of all the good artifacts in Illinois. I lived in Kewanee back in the 60s and my mother was cub scout den mother. She became acquainted with a fella if memory serves me worked at the post office. Well in conversation he found out about us little cub scouts through her and he was a very avid artifact hunter and invited her to bring us over for some education on Native Americans and see his collection. From what I remember every cabinet was full of artifacts and his living room walls were covered in framed displays. I was so fascinated with what he had collected. The thing I still remember out of all his fascinating and wonderful things he found was this pistol with spears I now know as a F. Reuthe's trap gun. I still remember him saying he took some boy scouts out on a hunt to teach them how to find aritifacts. He said the were all searching along the bank of a creek and all the scouts were ahead of him trying to find artifacts and everyone of them walked right over the iron handle of this bizarre gun sticking out of the mud. Funny how some things you never forget.
