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Thanks for posting all the articles and that was really a great effort. It was quite interesting to know that some of the reports that I posted were, of value and that the Indians did have a problem with bigfoots that kept bothering them. Your writings are always very detailed and thank-you for participating on this topic. You always do a good job of answering and replying to topics that helps keep the entire forum membership informed.

Chest did not heal…again. Go see surgeon tomorrow. So I have taken myself off of light duty. And I went for a Wolf hunt in Idaho. Went over Gisborne ridge. Lots of fog down low, finally broke out up high. I saw lots of deer and elk. Whitetail and elk on the way out down low. Mule deer up high. No wolves. There was about 4 inches of snow up top in the shade.

Just to continue the prior (as I didn't know how long it would be), there were no mentions of "Sacred Baby Mountain" in newspapers.com. Nor are there any when doing a general web search apart from those tied to websites reporting this specific story. Searching for "Captain Joshua LeFlore" draws a blank in newspapers.com; omitting his supposed rank brings up mostly wedding announcements, obituaries, a sale of land, and a murder case in Atoka, Oklahoma where a Joshua LeFlore pled guilty to manslaughter in 1899. The so-called professor is an author who has a bunch of sensationalist books listed on Amazon, etc., but most of them appear to be out of print. I will say that the Choctaw Lighthorsemen sound like an interesting bunch, breaking up political impasses (by forcing one side out of the assembly hall) in 1897 and enforcing bans on alcohol in their territory (after a sort) in 1902. One of their early leaders was indicted for introducing liquor into the Indian Territory (that's a legal term that is still used in court cases today) in 1914 and arresting some businessmen who circumvented the law to get a railroad run through the reservation in 1920.