United States 1800s - Boss Liars and Bigfoot - Tirademan!

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It's amazing how much easier online research is in less than 20 years.  Tirademan found "the tantalizing Boss Liar" story online but had to contact a library in a major Ohio city and pay 50 cents to obtain a more fulsome copy on the topic.  I just punched up over 4,000 articles, the earliest from 1863.  It appears that this was a common phrase used by newspapers to disparage the writers for other newspapers, as these clips show.  However, I did not attempt to find an article linking a Boss Liar to Bigfoot.