Published in Flyway: Journal of Writing and the Environment

“He told us that he remembered spotting a full mammoth skull, complete with tusks, jutting out of a cliff along the shore while whaling as a boy. It took him and his friends five hours to dig it out, balancing in their small boat and fighting the rising tide. Once they removed the whole skull, they gave it to the oldest boy who kept it in his living room for a time. Ross didn’t know where it went after that. The market for mammoth didn’t exist then. “

http://flywayjournal.org/non-fiction/memories-of-a-mammoth-hunter-victoria-sanderson/