Bigfoot · Pershing County, Nevada · 1891
NV-1891ID case-9c5a8d9077Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- When
- Mar 1891to the month
- Where
- Pershing County, Nevadato county level
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports a tradition of a giant who made war on the Pintoes and was slain by a Pinto brave, with his tracks and grave still shown near Pyramid Lake.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
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Details
- Creature
- Bigfoot
- Where
- Pershing County, Nevada, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Mar 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-9c5a8d9077
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Source trail (2)
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 7 of The McCook tribune (McCook, Neb.), March 13, 1891
Newspaper · 1891-03-13
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 2 of Daily Yellowstone journal (Miles City, Mont.), May 30, 1891
Newspaper · 1891-05-30
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.
Borrow on Internet Archive
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