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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2002

A Kiowa tribal member armed with a metal detector appears to have discovered remnants of an historic Army fort in his backyard.

But George Guy wasn't looking for Fort Cobb, which was used to protect Oklahomans from raids by Plains tribes and was Col. George Armstrong Custer's retreat after the Washita Massacre. (*) "I was sitting around one day, telling my mother, 'I wish I had those old Hot Wheels I used to play with,'" Guy, age 30, told The Daily Oklahoman. "So I bought a metal detector and started looking on our property."

Guy instead found hundreds of artifacts, some of which he intends to donate to his tribe's museum.

*Ed. Note: The massacre was the Washita Massacre in Oklahoma, not the Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado. An earlier version incorrectly stated the wrong massacre of Indian people.

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Antique hunter finds artifacts from lost fort (The Daily Oklahoman 9/30)