THE PIOCHE WEEKLY RECORD — NOVEMBER 5, 1881
STRANGE TRACKS—As a couple of residents of Bullionville, who had been stopping at a ranch down in the Wash for several days, were returning home, they run across some mammoth tracks, larger and far different from any that they had ever seen or heard of. They first thought that the track was made by a monster grizzly bear, but then it was twice the size of a bear track, measuring eight inches broad and 27 ¾ inches in measuring and upon closely examining the track, the impression made in the dirt by tho toe-nails showed that instead of being long and sharp claws like that on the foot of a bear, they were broad, measuring 1 inch is width.
The men became somewhat excited in regard to these strange tracks, an I determining to satisfy their curiosity and discover the monster that made the tracks, they started to trail it. They followed the trail, through the sagebrush, for about five miles, and the men observed that there was a beef’s track along-side of the unknown animal’s trail nearly the whole of the way, so concluded the beef was being chased by the monster, who wished to devour it for food.
These men trailed the animal up to Panaca, and followed the tracks in a stable, where they espied a young lady attending to a cow that had just been brought home a short while before. It appears that a Panaca belle had been out in search of a lost cow that morning, and it was her tracks that these men had been following up.
From— The Pioche Weekly Record. (Pioche, Nev.), 05 Nov. 1881. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
