Geological Society Founder Spotlight

Note: This article is the second in a series about the founders of the Carter County Geological Society and museum. The museum will host a meeting at 7 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month through April, featuring a founder, their story and items they have donated.

In the fall of 1954, photographer Ross Madden traveled to Ekalaka to illustrate the Life Magazine story "The Town That Hunts Bones." All his black and white pictures were striking, but the photo of 73 year old DeLoss Hall walking down a mud butte with a huge dinosaur bone over his shoulder told the whole story. Along with Walter...