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Not that Bigfoot

From the reporter' notebook

The Bigfoot I am writing about roamed the hills in Idaho’s Owyhee County in the 1850s.

He was born to a white man and Cherokee woman and was named Starr Wilkerson. He later got his name “Bigfoot” partially because his foot measured 17.5 inches. He was given the name by native people at the time.

He initially got in trouble while traveling a wagon train west when he took a liking to a woman on the...

 
 

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