Where Bigfoot walks : crossing the dark divide
2017
Book
"Awarded a Guggenheim to investigate the legends of Sasquatch, Dr. Robert Pyle trekked into the unprotected wilderness of the Dark Divide near Mount St. Helens, where he discovered both a giant fossil footprint and recent tracks. He searched out Indians who told him of an outcast tribe, the Seeahtiks, who had not fully evolved into humans. He attended Sasquatch Daze, where he met scientists, hunters, and others who have devoted their lives to the search, and realized that 'these guys don't want to find Bigfoot--they want to be Bigfoot!' A handful of open-minded biologists and anthropologists countered the tabloids he studied, while rogue Forest Service employees and loggers swore of an industry conspiracy to deep-six accounts of unknown, upright hominoid apes among us. In the years since publication, the author's fresh experiences and finds--detailed in an all-new chapter which includes an evaluation of recent DNA evidence from Bigfoot hair and scat, the study of speech phonemes in the "Sierra Sounds" purported Bigfoot recordings, Pyle's examination of the impact of the wildly popular Animal Planet series Bigfoot Hunters, the reemergence of the famous Bob Gimlin into the Bigfoot community, and more--have kept his own mind wide open to one of the biggest questions in the land."--Amazon.com.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781619029378
Edition: First Counterpoint paperback edition.
Description: xxi, 441 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Notes:
- Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
- Introduction: Bukwus and Dzonoqua at play.
- I. Pan's bridge: 1. Not looking for Bigfoot --2. Juniper Ridge
- 3. Ghost moths at moonrise
- Sunrise with bears
- The saddle.
- Heart of the Dark Divide: 6. Of ouzels and old frowth
- 7. Monty West and the well-adapted ape
- 8. Legends of the dark divide
- 9. Yellowjacket Pass
- 10. Grendel redux : snagtooth.
- III. Devils in heaven: 11. Whistling with Bigfoot
- 12. "Bigfoot baby foubd in watermelon, has Elvis's sneer"
- 13. One hundred hours of solitude
- Natural history of the Bigfoot hunters
- 15. Back to earth.
- IV. Footsteps on the wind: 16. Northern spotted Bigfoot
- 17. Lost in the big lava bed
- 18. Mermaids, monsters, and metaphors
- 19. Carson on the Columbia
- 20. Something in the night.
- Epilogue: Monsters in the mist
- Back to the Dark Dvidie, 2017
- Map of the Dark Divide
- Appendix A: A protocol for encounter
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Index.
LCCN: 2017015893
Control Number: 2798357
Publisher: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint Press, 2017.Subjects: