believe? What about the proliferation of sightings in recent years in still other parts of the

country, such as Florida, Texas, and even New York? Even President Teddy Roosevelt got into

the act, writing an absorbing account of a bigfoot creature in his book "The Wilderness Hunter".

It seems he was completely convinced of their existence, and Teddy Roosevelt was a seasoned

Accounts of Bigfoot (or Sasquatch, as it is called in Canada) are certainly nothing new. Indian

lore of several Pacific Northwest tribes includes mention of a man-like beast covered in fur, and

some of their stories make him out to be less than friendly. To some tribes, he is O-Mah . . . to

others Sasquatch, which means "boss of the mountains", loosely translated from the native

language of one Pacific Northwest tribe. Other local tribes have their own names for him --

Omah, Windego, Yeahoh, Tsiatko, Boqs, and

Rugaru, among others. To them, these impressive and solitary creatures are just a part of nature

-- a Being deserving just as much respect as any other.

. A flood of eye-witness accounts occurred in the 1950's with the buildi

sometimes means both the singular and the plural form, like the word "deer". As a consequence

because of a naive but unquestioned assumption that physical remains of at least one specimen

print, but I've included them here in a special section, at the bottom of this page, so you can take

little photographic documentation exists, to contrast with the thousands of credible eyewitness

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out of that period came many well-researched books. Some of the best of these are now out of

surrouding the term "Bigfoot". First coined in the late 1950's, the public is now more familiar

tabloid character. Nothing could be further from the truth.

sightings of the real animals in the wild almost always use the word bigfoot to describe what they

accounts of bigfoot for many years and had written a book detailing some of his expeditions into

the subject. People who are little more than grocery store customers laugh at the word. Many

if those eyewitnesses are their most trusted family members. The topic so sternly dismissed by

supermarket tabloids. Most people are not aware that the cartoonish "Bigfoot" figure is a

Some common words found in the essay are:
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