Other Aquatic · Lander, Wyoming · 1897

WY-1897ID case-4e92d09e0aFallback locationAdded to map Oct 11, 2026

The account

An English swimmer claims he was up against a porpoise that stayed in the water for a week.

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Creature: Other Aquatic
Where: Lander, Fremont County, Wyoming, 82520, 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: Mar 1897
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (5 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 11, 2026
Case id: case-4e92d09e0a

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Down the rabbit hole → 5 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 7 of The clipper (Lander, Fremont County, Wyo.), March 5, 1897
Newspaper · 1897-03-05
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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