When can you put these into bookform? It's too tough to read all on my 5 inch monitor.

Big smiley face, tirademan!!!!!!!!

History is cool. This thread is gonna take a week to read.

Thank you, to the infinite.

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Thanks DarkRabbit, I'm hoping to have a prototype book ready by Bellingham(!)...not sure if I can do it by then though!

I also owe SnoChoJoe the PDFs, so I'm trying to organize and make sense of the files on my hard drive as I changed "naming schemes" half way through collecting them.

Oh well, as a result, I found a couple more stories I'd past up...

Here's a mention of Bigfoot Lake (named after Bigfoot Indians(?)) in Wisconsin

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This one is fun...the original Scoftic? Maybe Greg learned from him...

...I'm not sure how a 1696 reference to "Ourain Outanis" and showing a woodcut of what looks to be an Orang Outang is fakery!

Seems someone's a little touchy about evolution!

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OK, this is getting ugly...my file re-organization, that is!

Here's two more I missed. International they be...

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Man captured by Sasquatch? Hmmmm....

Nice drawing!

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These are an awesome goldmine of stuff, but some are hard to read. But I like the artwork illustrations.

It would be nice if they were in plain text, so we can search for key words too, or resize the font.

There are optical character reader (ocr) software that may be able to take your graphic clippings and convert them to text, then spell check it. I remember doing something like that and it was confusing w for vv amongst other quirks. But saved me on a lot of typing.

And somehow I passed over this one as well...

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OK, found a few more I missed to tide us over until we can see that damn film!

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Strange monkey...

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An old 1818 Colorado mention from some magazine? hmmm...

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A few more odds and ends I found whilst organizing the hard drive...

I realize this one could be anything or anyone...

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This one has got everything in it!

Interesting early mention of "fairy circles"...

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Great illustration...

Millionaires, Los Angeles, and monkeys!

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1861 hoax story...the original Bob H?

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ps-when did they discover gorillas? I guess this must be referring to a low-land gorilla? hmmm, I'm not up on the timeline of their "cataloging"

I wasn't going to post this one, but what the hell...it shows some kind of historical perspective in fiction from back then...it's kind of big and long and boring but...

...the damn Norwegian Wader still won't be available when you get done reading it!

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Don't know why I didn't post this one either...BigFootDad, need some lyrics for a song?

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More...more...more....

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Dang pesky...

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Georgia 1889...This one I'd actually posted before, but found an "easier to read" version because the first one was really beat up...I like the tone of humor in this one...

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Another Wisconsin story I somehow missed...

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A few more...strange man roaming...couldn't figure out who they meant by "Tracy"

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OK, this one has that classic "who could it be?" answer at the end. (sounds like a stretch to me!)

It seems that humans have a need to "wrap up" loose ends...keeps the citizens calm I guess!

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"There is not a man in the entire section who could be induced to enter the cave under any consideration."

"You go first..." "No, YOU go first!..."

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And a couple more...your average "mystery animal" story...and the usual conclusions!

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1958, Oklahoma...A VERY hungry mountain lion...and an angry posse of 300-700 armed people!

...I guess they didn't get it!

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OK, I think this is the last one I found while making "the book." I took a prototype of it to Bellingham to show around. It turned out pretty well...282 pages! I'm still working on how I'll "publish" it and the price. I'm also going to try to make a 'hi-resolution" PDF of it if I can, as burning a DVD will be much easier than printing 282 pages!

For now, here's a Texas Big Thicket story from 1952. I think they're describing two different individuals in this one, but that is just my opinion!

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That last one is pretty wild!

Kudos T-Man!!! You have done an absolutely wonderful job compiling all of these articles!!
Love it!

Best of luck with the book!

Looking through Scott's "review copy" of the Historical Archives spurred me to scan some old clippings I found in a copy of John Green's On the Track of the Sasquatch. Although I already had the book, I purchased the copy if only for the clippings.

The first clipping, from the Portand Oregon Journal concerns the publicity tour Roger Patterson conducted during the initial release of his documenatry.

The second clipping, also from the Portand Oregon Journal, advertises the first showing of the film in Portland, OR at the Memorial Coliseum.

Third clipping... the showings continue, but have moved to Portland area high schools.

Clipping #4 - another Marge Davenport story talks about John Green and his investigation of the Big Horn Dam Sighting.

Clipping #5 - Robert W. Morgan's "expedition" to the Pacific Northwest.

Clipping #6 - A hoax... or was it?

Clipping #7 - A hoax confession...

Clipping #8 - Hunter's get warning.

Clipping #9 - from the Portand Oregonian, concerns Dr. Grover Krantz.

Clipping #10 - from a wwkly column by outdoor reporter Bill Monroe.

Clipping #11 - top half of a clipping from the Oregon Journal.

Clipping #12 - the second half of the last article...

Clipping #13 - Yakima man claims he wore the Bigfoot suit at Bluff Creek.

Like anyone would believe that!

Thanks Tug...now I'll need to re-layout the whole book! HA!

And now the BAD NEWS:
As of now, I've made several copies of the book by hand. But it's a really labor-intensive job to do the 2-sided printing for 282 pages, inserting the cover and other color pages, 3-hole punching, and then binding damn thing! I will probably explore how much it would cost me to produce it at Kinkos. I'm guessing the raw cost would be around $40, but don't really know, as the color pages/binding would be the unknowns. A straight black and white copy would probably be much cheaper.

And now the GOOD NEWS!
I just finished making a high-resolution PDF of the entire 282-page book!

I will keep everyone informed when I make CDs available to people and how much. This hi-res PDF file on CD would allow people to view/print their own quality color copy...in other words, much easier on me! But the file is 225mbs, so you'd need a decent computer/printer to open and print it well. But I'm not an expert on that, especially on the PC side.

I'll keep you posted here.

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Please do keep us informed! You've compiled some great stuff!

I wanted to thank Tug for adding the clippings! Very cool!

I also wanted to note that it would be great for anyone else who has clippings, to scan and add them! This is an archive in motion...

If you do have stories to add, you should scan them at a high resolution and save them...THEN save them at a lower resolution for posting on this thread. That way, you have the original scan hi-res for quality printing later. I know it means two files but, try it, you'll like it!

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FINALLY! I've got the BIG NEWS PRINTS book I made available as a CD-R to purchase online!

You can find pictures of the 283-page book and order the CD-R for $20 (including shipping) at my website here:
http://www.mcclean.org

(Paypal makes you fill out all the info, but you do NOT have to set up a Paypal account...they give you the option at the very end. You can also snail mail me a check.)

If any of you were at the Bellingham conference, you may have seen a copy of the book that I printed out and made by hand. This CD-R contains a high-resolution PDF file of that book, so you can print you own copy if you wish. You print the even pages first, then flip them over and print the odd...but it takes some practice!

The PDF is nice as you can take it with you (providing you have a laptop!) and you can zoom into some of the tiny type that is hard to read in the printed version. I'd also recommend copying the PDF to your hard drive before viewing as the screen redraw is much faster than viewing off your CD drive.

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I'll buy one when I return from work in October... save a copy for me!

I purchaced one of Tirademan's CD's yesterday. I'm looking forward to going through it when I get it. $20 is great price, considering how much work has gone into the production of the thing.

I've already read through some of the material Tirademan has posted, my favorite period for this stuff is the 1970's.

Thanks Tube and Tug!

Again, if anyone has any specific stories, dates, or specific things they'd like searched in that newspaper archives, just let me know...there is an amazing amount out there.

I'm going to post a PDF of the index of the book at my website so you can see a chronological list of all the stories contained in the CD-R book. It's a pretty small PDF file as it's the last page of the book and it's all text. Look for it in a few days at mcclean.org if you're interested in seeing the story list.

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Fouke Monster
Arkansas Gazette
May 4, 1971

Fouke Monster
Texarkana Daily News
May 24, 1971

Fouke Monster
Arkansas Gazette
November 27, 1973