Bigfoot · Cheyenne, Wyoming · 1888
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Jul 1888to the month
- Where
- Cheyenne, Wyomingfallback location
- Reports
- 5 documents1 independent
The account
A noble gentleman in Brittany who transformed into a wolf three days a week was eventually recognized by the king after his clothes were returned to him.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Cheyenne, Laramie County, Wyoming, 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
- Jul 1888
- 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 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-9b7565ed63
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Source trail (1)
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 4 of The Cheyenne daily leader (Cheyenne, Wyo.), July 8, 1888
Newspaper · 1888-07-08
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
Books that mention this place
A match on the place name, not necessarily this case. Once you have borrowed a book, its link opens the search inside it on the place.
- Bigfoot Sasquatch Evidence, Grover S. Krantz (1999)
The anthropologist's evidence review.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science, Jeff Meldrum (2006)
A scientist's case for the evidence.
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More on this creature
- 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.