![]() ![]() George McJunkin was the foreman of the Crowfoot Ranch when the great flood of 1908 hit Folsom. He had always been curious about the natural world around him, and was particularly interested in science. He traded lessons in breaking horses for lessons in reading, and soon began reading anything he could get his hands on. His skills increased with each new job he took on, and eventually word got around that he was one of the best horse breakers and cowboys in New Mexico. He used it to buy the first footwear he had ever worn– a used pair of cowboy boots. He earned a handful of quarters, the first money he had ever been paid for his work. Along the way he stopped to help a man dig a well. ![]() He left home to join a cattle drive, ended up in northeastern New Mexico, and never returned to Texas. ![]() ![]() Although he was fluent in Spanish, experienced with horses, and used to helping his father in his blacksmith shop, he never had the opportunity to learn to read. George was freed at the age of 14 after the Civil War ended. George McJunkin was born a slave near Midway, Texas in 1851. His intellectual curiosity and determination continue to inspire a new generation of archaeologists. George McJunkin was a remarkable man whose discovery re-wrote the books on early man in North America. ![]()
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