Monday, January 25, 2016

Wild Men book is about finished...Almost Ready to go to 'Press'

I've pretty much completed the writing. I have one more edit to go, having been through the text and formatting at least once for each, but need to go through everything one more time. The words number 77,000+. There are over 220 individual stories from old newspapers going back to 1829, covering 36 states, three Canadian provinces and a number of countries. Most of the newspaper articles are in the 1800s. People were not sure what they were seeing.

There is the story of a capture of a creature in Wisconsin back in 1829 which is just fascinating. Also an 1839 story of a deadly attack by a beast in Georgia in the Okefenokee swamp. There is also the story of Leed's Devil in New Jersey. Wild men did exist in the 1800s and early 1900s. Some were human and some not. Witnesses reported seeing man-like, ape-like beings who walked on two legs, hairy, naked or mostly naked, fast, muscular, elusive, mischievous and often huge. These are stories most everyone has not heard before. Some of the 'Wild Men' were captured. Some were shot. Beast or human? I'll let the reader decide. Sometimes it's obvious; other times it isn't.

I've narrowed the book cover down to two, both of which are the combined artistic efforts, combining a painting of mine and a photo.

Bigfoot and Human Origin Books Read Recently

I've read all but two of the following:
When Roger Met Patty by William Munns
Bigfoot by Loren Coleman
The Best of Sasquatch by John Green
Sasquatch - Legend Meets Science by Jeff Meldrum
Bigfoot Enigma by Scott Marlowe
The Red Ape by Jeffrey Schwartz
The Hoopa Project by David Paulides
Missing 411-Western US by David Paulides 
Missing 411-Eastern US by David Paulides
Still Living? Yeti, Sasquatch and the Neanderthal Enigma by Myra Shackley
Other Origins by Ciochon, Olsen & James
Cryptozoology A-Z by Loren Coleman
The Beast of Boggy Creek by Lyle Blackburn
True Giants by Mark Hall and Lorne Coleman
Giants, Cannibals & Monsters by Kathy Moskowitz Strain

I'm more than halfway through Lyle's book on the Beast of Boggy Creek and the next one I have is Kathy Strain's book. I would have taken it on vacation (as I did two others) but Kathy's book is big with the pictures and all and I was wanting to travel light. 

All of the above books are recommended.