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Article: LEGEND OF 'BIGFOOT' VERY MUCH ALIVE IN DYING WILDERNESS.(SPOTLIGHT)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- January 7, 1996
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Byline: C.W. BUCHHOLTZ
Where Bigfoot Walks
By Robert Michael Pyle. Houghton Mifflin. 338 pages. $21.95.
What business does a professional naturalist have spending time tracking something as weird as Bigfoot? For Robert Michael Pyle, better known as a specialist on butterflies, the reason is simple: curiosity.
Anyone who spends time in the Pacific Northwest woods is bound to think of Bigfoot. And what further excuse does a veteran backcountry wanderer need to go hiking than to look for a legend? "Something is definitely afoot in the forests of the Pacific Northwest," Pyle begins. "Either an officially undescribed species of hominoid ...