 ometime
after the turn of the last century, young George Keller and a
lad named Lone Eagle were playing among the foothills
of the Rocky Mountains above the farm owned by George's father
near Manti, Utah. The Kellers were the descendants of freed black
slaves, who migrated to the American southwest following the
Civil War. Coming to a massive overhang, the Indian boy pointed
to a hole in the mountain side and explained, "This is a
special place, the Cave of the Great Spirit. My father says it
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chief protects those who are buried
there. My father was shown this place by his father when
he was a kid. You are the only person other than our people who
knows about this place. You must promise not to tell anyone of
our secret! Follow me and I will show you inside." The friends
explored the site together, and from the cave floor George picked
up a few flint heads to play with in his room back home. Over
the years, he kept his promise and never told anyone about the
chamber guarded by the spirit of a great Indian chief. Lone Eagle
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away, and George worked on the Keller farm. He lived in a
hillside shed above the farm, not far from the cave of his boyhood
experience, to the east. But he rarely visited the site again
and took no further interest in it, until he met John Brewer,
many years later.
rewer lived with his wife in the small town of Moroni, Utah,
where he did odd jobs for farmers in the area. For recreation,
he collected Indian arrow-heads, and eventually assembled an
impressive collection. In early spring, 1955, his numerous artifacts
were dis-
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