Sasquatch In Finding Bigfoot
Lurking in the woods and mountains of America lies one of the most controversial topics amongst scientist. A possible missing link in the evolution chain of human beings and apes, alluding society, as well as existence for some. The existence of Sasquatch, or otherwise known as Bigfoot, has become a huge phenomenon within American culture starting in the 1960’s and escalating into the 21st century, with shows on animal planet such as Finding Bigfoot. Although it’s a new thing stories of Sasquatch and Sasquatch citing’s have been seen around the globe. From the Himalayas to the forests in Norway, he has been seen. The stories trickle back in history to Native American tribes such as the Iroquois, Shoshone, and Shawnee to name a few. Sasquatch
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However, in Theodore Roosevelt’s The Wilderness Hunter it reveals that a Great War hero of the Spanish-American war as one of the rough riders and future president of the United States advocates the story of a friend of the existence of Bigfoot. “ he knew well the stories told by the Indian medicine men in their winter camps, of the Snowwalkers, and the specters, and the formless evil beings that haunt the forest depths, and dog and waylay the lonely wanderer who after nightfall passes through the regions where they lurk; and it may be that when overcome by the horror of the fate that befell his friend, and when oppressed by the awful dread of the unknown, he grew to attribute, both at the time and still more in remembrance, weird and elfin traits to what was merely some abnormally wicked and cunning wild beast; but whether this was so or not, no man can say….” (Roosevelt) Roosevelt was telling the story of Bauman, who was a hunter in Idaho. The Native Americans of the area have again like the Chipewyan have told folklore about the Sasquatch, in their case he’s called Snowwalker, just as the Chipewyan calls him Bushman. In Roosevelt’s story because the beast was shot at during a hunting trip that provoked him to attack Bauman’s camp ravaging all of their supplies and while this altercation was happening the snowalker got his friend and killed
However, in Theodore Roosevelt’s The Wilderness Hunter it reveals that a Great War hero of the Spanish-American war as one of the rough riders and future president of the United States advocates the story of a friend of the existence of Bigfoot. “ he knew well the stories told by the Indian medicine men in their winter camps, of the Snowwalkers, and the specters, and the formless evil beings that haunt the forest depths, and dog and waylay the lonely wanderer who after nightfall passes through the regions where they lurk; and it may be that when overcome by the horror of the fate that befell his friend, and when oppressed by the awful dread of the unknown, he grew to attribute, both at the time and still more in remembrance, weird and elfin traits to what was merely some abnormally wicked and cunning wild beast; but whether this was so or not, no man can say….” (Roosevelt) Roosevelt was telling the story of Bauman, who was a hunter in Idaho. The Native Americans of the area have again like the Chipewyan have told folklore about the Sasquatch, in their case he’s called Snowwalker, just as the Chipewyan calls him Bushman. In Roosevelt’s story because the beast was shot at during a hunting trip that provoked him to attack Bauman’s camp ravaging all of their supplies and while this altercation was happening the snowalker got his friend and killed