Deer and Diamond Hunting in Southwest Arkansas

By Glenn W. Worthington

Big deer and big diamonds both harvested on the same weekend. This is the true story of how the author shot the two, largest bucks of his fifteen-year deer hunting adventure. And he got these 8-point and 10-point bucks within 24 hours of each other! On that same weekend two of his diamond mining buddies found two large diamonds less than a mile away at southwest Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park. Read this exciting adventure of discovery.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Glenn W. Worthington
• Release date: Jan 11, 2012
• ISBN: 9781466002913

Glenn W. Worthington

My book, "Genuine Diamonds Found in Arkansas," is now in its third printing. I have written numerous articles for magazines including Gold Prospectors, Lost Treasure, Rock and Gem, Mother Earth News, Contemporary Christian, Western & Eastern Treasure, and The Kansas City Star Magazine. I was featured on the front cover of the Sept/Oct, 2010, issue of Gold Prospector Magazine. I have also written, hosted, and produced a DVD called, "How To Find Genuine Diamonds in Arkansas."

Book preview

Deer and Diamond Hunting in Southwest Arkansas

Glenn W. Worthington

Copyright 2012 by Glenn W. Worthington

Smashwords Edition

Sixteen years ago my wife and I moved from Kansas City to rural Arkansas so I could continue my search for the diamonds that naturally occur there. I had unearthed my first ten diamonds at Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park during the summer of 1978, and I wanted to find more. Now I have found over two hundred diamonds. My largest two are a flawless, 2.04-carat, fancy yellow discovered in 2009 and a 2.13-carat brown diamond I found in 2010.

The yellow diamond was naturally beautiful, and we have not had it cut. But we felt like the looks of the brown one could be improved with cutting. We sent this USA diamond to cutters in