I envy you your opportunity to relic hunt - especially so long ago when there was vastly more that hadn't been found yet by
@ucvrelics - probably the one important Civil War-related activity I never had a serious opportunity to engage in because of my remote location in far-off Texas; however, I have mentioned before a similarly unusual opportunity I took full advantage of when I was around the same age. Fifteen years before your experience, in 1964 I had just graduated from high school at the age of 17 and along with my best friend Mike
@mkyzzzrdet who was a year older we borrowed my father's station wagon (remember THOSE?) so we could make a Civil War expedition that August before beginning college. By ourselves we drove from a suburb of Dallas all the way to Gettysburg (more like
1500 miles) and back, returning by way of Chattanooga, Atlanta, and Vicksburg! To economize, every other night we slept in the car, often at some isolated but historic site like Gettysburg's East Cavalry Battlefield. We were gone three weeks and returned safe and sound, if exhausted from our battlefield sojourn! From that experience I largely date my passion for travel and visiting Civil War and other historical sites, including the Native American ones you've touched on.