Not Enough Wilderness In Midwest To Support Bigfoot?

[Incorrigible1]

Boring old history buff that I am, I'm currently reading The Great Platte River Road, about the westward migration of the mid 19th century. The author reviewed hundreds of diaries, accounts, and historical letters from those participants that traversed the Great Plains of Nebraska, bound for points west.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Platte-River-Road-Photography/dp/0803281536/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382653966&sr=1-1&keywords=the+great+platte+river+road

 

 

While extinct from Nebraska for over one hundred years, the emigrant's tales are replete with accounts of grizzlies and wolves (the occasional wolf has recently been shot or sighted in current day Nebraska). Hundreds of mentions of bison, pronghorn, and elk are reported.

 

Nary a large, bipedal, hairy ape amongst the historical record.

 

I'd love for my home state to harbor the beast. It ain't so. Wishful longing won't supply the creature in the Great Plains, either. Try as one might.

Edited October 24, 2013 by Incorrigible1

[Guest Urkelbot]

Maybe the settlers were just too afraid of being mocked by future generations to record their accounts in their diaries.

[hiflier]

Hello Urkelbot,

LMAO!

[GuyInIndiana]

Maybe the settlers were just too afraid of being mocked by future generations to record their accounts in their diaries.

 

Maybe the sasquatch were just as ellusive and did their best to avoid humans a mere 100-200 years ago like they do now. <?>

 

The lack of overwhelming reports from a sparse number of early settlers shouldn't be a massive surprise.

[Incorrigible1]

The fiction continues. Aye, yi yi yi.

[Oonjerah]

 

Indiana: POP: 6,537,334 

  SQ MI: 35,826

  density: 182.5

 

Kansas: POP: 2,885,905

  SQ MI: 81,758.72

  density: 35 

 

Nebraska: POP: 1,711,263

  SQ MI: 77,358

  density: 24

 

Hmmm. NE 24 people/Sq. mi. ... Couldn't keep watch on a herd of elephants. 

Especially if most people live in Omaha & Lincoln. 

Same thing in Kansas.  

[Guest]

However there is a pretty well-known BF sighting that was apparently caught on an Indian Casino security cam in Oklahoma. In this case the casino and reservation are well out on the flats with no woods at all- similar terrain to Nebraska. There is a Bigfoot Show podcast from several years ago that focused on this sighting. 

 

The North Canadian River is only about 2-3 miles from the casino and it has a dense woods along it, the small creeks are more like little canyons with brush around them in the cross timbers areas and can provide additional cover. I understand the tribe has a small buffalo herd on the property as well.

 

I was looking at Google Maps in North and South Dakota looking at potential places and figure atleast a few spots may yield some. Black Hills are and along the big rivers of course and few random green patches here and there. Just not anyone looking or listening is my bet.

Edited October 25, 2013 by GEARMAN

[Guest DWA]

 

 

Indiana: POP: 6,537,334 

  SQ MI: 35,826

  density: 182.5

 

Kansas: POP: 2,885,905

  SQ MI: 81,758.72

  density: 35 

 

Nebraska: POP: 1,711,263

  SQ MI: 77,358

  density: 24

 

Hmmm. NE 24 people/Sq. mi. ... Couldn't keep watch on a herd of elephants. 

Especially if most people live in Omaha & Lincoln. 

Same thing in Kansas.  

 

This is what I mean when I say that just driving the interstates through these states one can get an idea that something like this would be seen by relatively few, and reported by far fewer.

[salubrious]

^^ Interstate 90 and Interstate 80 both go though the easiest routes/most boring scenery in either state.  

[Guest DWA]

As right as that may be - and it is - there's "a lot of nothing" on those routes, and people tend not to look at "nothing" to see what's there.

 

And I've been extensively off the interstates, and yep, it gets more intriguing from there.

[Cotter]

In North Dakota, there are indeed sightings.  Seemingly around the killdeer mtn range.  My media connection was able to see a map, kept on the wall on one of the tribal police dept's that marked the sightings on the reservation.  Additionally, she had a co-worker that had a sighting in the middle of a snowstorm.

 

I think, as I said earlier, these type of folks aren't the type to start calling media and going to websites to complete reports.

 

I've done a little hunting in North Dakota as well, some of the grasslands out there can stand 5+ feet tall, all one has to do to become concealed is crouch.  Of course, not all areas fit that bill, but there are areas that do.

[Branco]

The fiction continues. Aye, yi yi yi.

Nebraska's neighbors. Just the posted sighting from the BFRO data base. KS = 37, CO =115, WY = 31, MO = 109, SD=17

Nebraska itself = 14. Considering that only one of out many sightings ever get reported to any public or private investigation agency, and considering the limited area of good habitat for Bigfoot in Nebraska, a resident population of less that one hundred seems reasonable.

Edited October 26, 2013 by Branco

[hiflier]

Hello Branco,

Good reason to NOT SHOOT THEM.

[Guest Urkelbot]

Can anyone name a species of an animal, not bigfoot, that has a range that encompasses a continent and all it's biomes. But at the same time so rare it would be considered endangered? Even the black bear doesnt have that kind of dustrubition and its much more successful than Bigfoot.

But who needs reality when you can have fantasy. People claim they saw Bigfoot so it must be so.

[GuyInIndiana]

 Even the black bear doesnt have that kind of dustrubition and its much more successful than Bigfoot.

 

 

Define what 'more successful' is for us please. As long as you only see BF as just an animal, then you'll never see it for it's intelligent, sentient side... which is why it has the capacity to go and be places you can't imagine it would go. (granted it's just some animal)