Article: BRIEF: Stories about wild man date back to the 1840s.

Sep. 13--There are many versions of the story about the wild man of the Navidad. One account of the legend is chronicled in "The Cavalcade of Jackson County," a historic report written by Ira Thomas Taylor in the 1930s. According to Taylor, the wild man arrived in Jackson County after escaping a slave ship in Galveston in the 1830s. First signs of strange footprints came in 1834. In the 1840s, stories began to surface about the wild man creeping onto farms and ranches, taking the fattest pig and replacing it with a smaller one.

Another account Taylor reported was the wild man's affection for knives and saws, in which people's saws and knives would disappear, only ...

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