In 1933, a local farmer plowing a wheat field near Miami began uncovering large, chalky bones, and area residents including county judge and amateur archeologist J.A. Mead investigated and found a man-made stone artifact alongside the bones of mammoth elephants. They identified the artifact as a Clovis fluted spear point similar to items discovered in 1932 at the Blackwater draw site near Clovis, New Mexico. In 1934, Dr. E. H. Sellards of the University of Texas became involved and, after securing funding through the Works Progress Administration, led an extended excavation of the site beginning in 1937. Known initially as the C.R. Cowan site, the location was found to be a playa lake filled with blue clay up to about two feet below ground level, formed from vegetation that once filled the pond. The remains of three to five adult mammoths and at least one baby mammoth were found there, along with man-made hunting tools, including a spear point found less than three inches from a mammoth’s atlas vertebra, two other spear points, and a hide scraping tool. These artifacts indicate that the animals were killed at a watering hole. The evidence is significant because it shows the contemporary existence of man and mammoth in North America and demonstrates that early man was an efficient, experienced hunter, information used in the debate over the causes of extinction of late Pleistocene era animals approximately 12,000 years ago. The site remains one of the most significant early man sites in North America.