Bigfoot · Miles City, Montana · 1891

MT-1891ID case-495f8942d6Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026

The account

Witness reports that Indians have a tradition of huge horned animals that roamed the country and were driven into Pyramid Lake to drown.

Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect · 1 cited source not found yet

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Creature: Bigfoot
Where: Miles City, Custer County, Montana, 59301, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen.
When: Aug 1891
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 30, 2026
Case id: case-495f8942d6

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Down the rabbit hole → 3 documents, and how they connect

Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.

Image 4 of Daily Yellowstone journal (Miles City, Mont.), August 20, 1891
Newspaper · 1891-08-20
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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