A big Dakota HOWDY pards too!
I have been a member here for a while, but never did post an introduction as I was mainly a lurker. However I finally realized that if I could only be active on ONE forum (like most people I have only so much time to spend on the internet and can't keep up with all the forums) that this one looks like the best choice.
My name is Roy A. Decker, I go by Oroblanco and have been using that nickname since the days of 1200 baud modems and all-text internet; it is the same nickname I use any place online (and in public for that matter) for I was not smart enough to realize that you could pick any kind of ID for internet, I thought you were supposed to use a real nickname that folks have called you and Oroblanco was the LEAST offensive one!
Gosh and to think I could have taken "Superman" or "John Wayne" but it is kind of too late now!
Some of you might already know me from another forum and if so my profuse apologies please don't tell everyone what you know about me!
(I am kidding amigos
) Seriously if we know each other from elsewhere I wish you a special HOWDY too, and yep it is the same old Oroblanco you have seen before, I don't go by a half dozen different names even though for a treasure hunter that might not be such a bad idea!
I am a treasure hunter and prospector, I do some writing too (you may have read some of my articles in Lost Treasure or another magazine some years ago, haven't contributed any lately though) and am working on a book on Custer currently; I have a wide variety of interests besides hunting lost mines (my favorite thing to do) that includes gunsmithing and guns, draft horses, hunting and fishing, camping, cryptozoology, UFOs and the paranormal. I had a little gun repair shop for some years but no longer have that. My wife and I have managed to make a living mining gold on our own claims in California for a few years until family health issues called us to go and help them out. We have lived in several states over the years, including Virginia, Arizona, Wyoming, California and now South Dakota but was born and raised in northeast Pennsylvania where I first got hooked on this avocation. Beth <Mrs Oro> and I are trying to be snowbirds now, in order to spend the winters or the worst of it in Arizona and the southwest, camping and hunting lost mines, and summers here in the Black Hills in order to keep the garden going and hunt for gold and silver here. Plus catch a fat trout now and then if we are lucky.
If you are curious about what I look like (horrors!) and you have a strong stomach, I am attaching my photo to this post. It is not up to date by twenty years but don't tell anyone, okay? Not all of us age gracefully you know!
Anyway my apologies for not posting an introduction sooner, I just wish that I had looked deeper into this forum much sooner; it took a little shock for me to wake up to what a great forum this place is. I like to close with this:
Good luck and good hunting amigos, I hope you find the treasures that you seek.
your friend in "Dakota Territory" (Black Hills of South Dakota)
Roy A. Decker, aka "Oroblanco"
I am offering you a "virtual coffee" until we meet around a campfire some night in person, hope that will do til then.
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