The Library Card That Traveled 340 Miles - Dug Up By A Dog

The Library Card That Traveled 340 Miles - Dug Up By A Dog

A lost wallet turned up 340 miles from home after a dog named Copper dug it from a concrete drainage culvert behind an Idaho rest stop, and the library card inside was issued twelve steps from where the wallet was buried-so how did a Nevada parts runner’s name end up in an Idaho library database? The discovery began with a single line in a sheriff’s log and led to a chain of small, inexplicable decisions that left one detail still unanswered.

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events as they were recorded: the wallet lost in a Lovelock hardware store parking lot, found by a man who later suffered a health episode, and a library card issued under the lost man’s name at a satellite branch-what connects these facts and what remains mysterious?

Person: Michael Wells Date: October 14, 2016 Location: Lovelock, Nevada Distance: 340 miles Finder: Copper (dog)

- The wallet was lost in a hardware store parking lot on Depot Road in Lovelock, Nevada on October 14, 2016. - Copper dug the wallet out of a concrete drainage culvert behind the Vantage Point rest stop in southern Idaho on the morning of February 4, 2017. - The library that issued the card sat twelve steps from where the wallet was buried. - Michael Wells, 28 years old and a parts runner from Harmon City, Nevada, had never been to Idaho. - The man who found the wallet, Warren Pruitt, suffered a minor cardiac event on the drive home and kept the wallet in his coat pocket while hospitalized for eleven days.

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