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Here is that Feb '68 issue of Argosy, my brother printed it out for me, 13 pages...free...

I'm celebrating my 72nd birthday (tomorrow) by being able to start a new topic! now that I'm over 25 posts. I am grateful for the opportunity to learn about people's experiences that were so outside the "norm" they're reluctant to tell anyone else about them. A shout out to all of you who share your sightings, your expertise in everything from technology to legal matters, and your fears when you had a sighting or had rocks thrown at you. For people like Highflier who spends countless hours analyzing BF and posting thoughts on what to do if someone comes across BF remains -- even though he says he hasn't had an encounter. For the many members in the PGF thread who post thoughtful content without demeaning others' comments and character. For moderators who try to drill into folks the rules of not demeaning others, while encouraging critical debate. Your efforts have made my day many times over, since I started a year and a half ago.

Thanks much Pat! I was a junior in high school when that came out and still have a couple of UFO magazines from the same time period. No clue what happened to the Argosy as I was really more into Bigfoot then.

Sometimes, it's hard for me to post in here if the topic has been much debated. I'm 75; I had a brand new copy of the Argosy that published the story or of Roger & Bob & Patty. In those days, I was like 90% sure that Patty was real. Now I'm more like 99.9%. I am an artist. We see things differently. Patty has a sagittal crest & a short neck. She's covered with hair. It makes many think of her as ape-like. But I don't. The reason she has a sagittal crest is that most of her diet is raw, tough vegetables. Strong jaw required. Why are her feet so flat? If you shaved Patty, she'd look like a tall human being, with proportions noticeably different from our own. And someone would be asking her to try out for their basketball team. Up to the mid-70's, even into the 80's?, about 30% of people in the US thought Bigfoot was real. They appeared in a Washington state manual of flora & fauna.* I also read that soldiers newly stationed at Fort Lewis-McChord were advised that Bigfoots were in the area, & if they saw one, just don't shoot it. I think I read that on this forum. Then the gov't changed its mind & decided that we should not know that bigfoots are real. In the last few years, every single time that I saw a bigfoot story on the news, the reporters would ridicule it even as they reported. I think that is why bigfoot belief/acceptance is now about half of what it once was. *That's a collectible too. But not near as sought after as the Argosy.

Thanks zman.......by the way, you asked about the impression near my heal on the 3-Toed track, that WAS part of the track, early reported as a dog print....sorry 'bout that. Peanut butter jar #11 in the gift basket pictured, and added a little fake bird in case they are getting bored:) Also, a few pics of the PB lids I am finding nearby, and the wrapper from the only Twinkie pack I put in the basket. I've ordered a mini GPS tracker that I'm going to put it inside the BF action figure pictured, and see if the juviefoot that's been hanging around takes it. Yeah I know, but might be goofy enough to work, I'll throw $75 bucks at it..

Well, Squatchy, there is an old expression in the law..."Extraordinary claims require extraordinary writs". Actually, no, I just made that up, but I sort of like the ring of it, you know? Well.. none of them, but all of them too. To the Judges who were compelled to rule or had their rulings overturned, what my clients were asking was on a level of declaring BF to exist, and it was being denied just as strongly. But o.k., yeah, a long-shot, Sure. It still is an intriguing and uncertain thing though. Like I said, IF it survives the initial challenges there could very well be an evidentiary hearing. You can count on a judge to look for a way to summarily rule as it would preclude having to address the merits of the allegations...the one thing every Judge I've known considered to always be the best of all possible outcomes when confronted with a sticky situation. If it does survive? I've been saying for years around here that there is a legal preponderance of admissible evidence for the existence of BF out there. If that could actually find its way into a courtroom, and a writ is issued for the State of California to recognize the creature it would not be binding on anybody or any government outside of the scope of the Order. What it would do though is open up a much, much broader conversation about it and force many who don't dwell in this space to lift their heads up and consider it. Personally, I think I know what results when that happens. Substitute "race relations", "procreation" and "sexual orientation" for "biology" in that sentence Norseman and you'll have described three landmark US Supreme Court decisions addressing what had previously not been considered to be civil affairs. I get what you are saying, but what I think you are missing is it possibly could be both.