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January 29, 2015

Pecos Bill vs. The Bear Lake Monster?

By Jeff Midgley

Sounds like a fight worth watching, right? But as far as folklore of the time went, the fight wasn’t even close…

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Page 256 of Treasured Tidbits of Time demonstrates exactly how famous The Bear Lake Monster was during the early 1870s.  (re-published with the consent of the USU Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives).

 

 

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