Bigfoot · Navidad, Texas · 1850
TX-1850ID case-7ff949b5ddAdded to map Nov 12, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Mar 1850to the month
- Where
- Navidad, Texasto town level
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
Old settlers say footmarks have been noticed for ten or twelve years, indicating three creatures were in company.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Navidad, Jackson County, Texas, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Mar 1850
- 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
- Nov 12, 2026
- Case id
- case-7ff949b5dd
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Source trail (1)
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 1 of The Minnesota pioneer (St. Paul, Minn. Territory), March 27, 1850
Newspaper · 1850-03-27
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us, John Green (1978)
Newspaper-publisher's file of Pacific Northwest reports.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Sasquatch, Don Hunter with Rene Dahinden (1975)
Casebook from a long-time field investigator.
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Bigfoot, Marian T. Place (1974)
1970s account of reports and searches.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America, Loren Coleman (2003)
Coleman's history and case survey.
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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.