Cowboys & Saurians in the Modern Era

Cowboys & Saurians in the Modern Era

John LeMay

15,43 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
Bicep Books
Año de edición:
2023
ISBN:
9781953221223
15,43 €
IVA incluido
Disponible

Selecciona una librería:

  • Librería Perelló (Valencia)
  • Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
  • El AlmaZen del Alquimista (Sevilla)
  • Librería Elías (Asturias)
  • Librería Kolima (Madrid)
  • Donde los libros
  • Librería Proteo (Málaga)

Even though the 'Golden Age of Newspapers' came to an end in the early 20th Century, tales of dinosaurian monsters remained in print. Plus, with photographic evidence of mystery creatures like Nessie and Bigfoot emerging, not to mention the new science of cryptozoology, perhaps the idea of remnant dinosaurs wasn’t so strange after all. This new tome in the Cowboys & Saurians series sets out to explore North America’s more notable dinosaur and cryptid encounters of the modern era. From Nebraska’s Walgren Lake Monster fiasco of the Roaring Twenties to the Minnesota Ice Man of the Swinging Sixties all the way up to the Colorado River Dinosaur phenomenon of the early 2000s, this tome hits all the high points. After reading this book, you’ll ask yourself: Was a North Dakota farmer’s account of nearly being run off the road by a dinosaur in 1934 inspired by the Arthur Grant Loch Ness account of the same year, or was it a genuine close-call with a cryptid? Was the 'vampire' Beast of Bladenboro a run-of-the-mill varmint, or a supernatural shapeshifter out for blood? Was the animal behind the Texas 'Big Bird' Flap of 1976 a pterosaur? Did starved, Depression-Era Wisconsinites take to eating a race of rare, pygmy mastodons? Was the infamous Glacier Island carcass of the 1930s a dinosaur or a whale? Why did a Churubusco, Indiana, farmer nearly go bankrupt trying to prove the existence of a titanic turtle? Was Kentucky’s Milton Lizard a descendant of Ohio’s Crosswicks Monster? And, finally, what does an 1892 Iguanodon sighting at Devil’s Hole have to do with a lost city of giants found under the sands of Death Valley in 1947?

Artículos relacionados

Otros libros del autor

  • Pueblo Magic
    John LeMay
    In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there existed a curious legend that Montezuma, the Aztec emperor of Mexico, had been born somewhere in the American Southwest. The stories went that he was a legendary shaman who performed miracles and slayed monsters before boarding the back of a great eagle and flying southward, where he founded the Aztec kingdom in Mexico. Before de...
    Disponible

    16,07 €

  • New Mexico’s Lost Worlds & Enchanted Lands
    John LeMay
    In the late 19th century, academics scoffed at the notion that the people of Acoma Pueblo once inhabited the unscalable Katzimo Mesa. In 1897, Frederick Webb Hodge proved them wrong by finding signs of habitation atop the plateau. Today called 'Enchanted Mesa,' it presents one of the better examples of a lost world to be found in New Mexico. But there are so many more. Northwes...
    Disponible

    16,07 €

  • Legend & Lore of the Lost Adams
    John LeMay
    For years, the tale of a group of miners who found a hidden canyon of gold only to be massacred by the Apache was legend across the Old West. Initially spread in saloons by the lone survivor known only as Adams, Texas folklorist J. Frank Dobie later immortalized it for a new generation in his writings. However, Dobie’s tale was a pastiche constructed of the myriad of conflictin...
    Disponible

    16,07 €

  • Lost Films of the Lost World & the Movies That Time Forgot
    John LeMay
    Get ready to explore a bevy of prehistoric paths not taken across the silver screen in... LOST FILMS OF THE LOST WORLD! Explore THE LOST WORLD’s lost footage and deleted cannibal subplot; delve into lost LOST WORLD sequels like ATLANTIS and a spoof to star Charlie Chaplin; uncover a forgotten adaptation of MYSTERIOUS ISLAND in 1929; explore the wilds of 1951’s JUNGLE MANHUNT to...
    Disponible

    15,76 €

  • Mummies of the Americas
    John LeMay
    You’ve probably read enough books on Old West ghost stories to turn blue in the face by now. But what about a tome of bonafide mummy stories from North America’s pioneer period? That’s right, Egypt isn’t the only place on Earth famous for mummies. Beneath North America’s desert sands are not only mummified remains, but entire cities of the dead in some places. For instance, eve...
    Disponible

    10,09 €

  • Cowboys & Monsters
    John LeMay
    No, this is not another book comprised of Old West ghost stories and campfire tales. This is a tome about tangible, flesh and blood monsters that allegedly terrorized the Western Frontier according to real newspaper articles of the era. And by monsters we mean real-life vampires, werewolves, ghouls, and other supernatural beings manifested in the flesh. In this book you’ll jour...
    Disponible

    15,45 €