Selling the fakes to tourists and so forth while keeping the actual human footprints somewhere???
As your aunt may also confirm that the guy who hired locals for these carvings lived during the Depression and it would seem unlikely the gentleman in this article lived back then.
No, actually the depression ended in 1941. I talked to the man personally in 1975 and saw the same “evidence.” He stated at that time that he needed money for an operation and the artifact was for sale. Maybe it is a different person, but I doubt it (maybe a relative.) The fact that he said he wanted to offer it to the Young Earthers kind of tells you where he is coming from. They have generated interest in this sort of evidence, so maybe he thinks he can make a “fast buck.” I don’t know personally—however, I have seen the footprints, and they are not human.