Bigfoot! : The True Story of Apes in America by Loren Coleman
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Book Reviews of Bigfoot! : The True Story of Apes in America
Book Review: Still Going In The 21st Century
Summary: 4 Stars
Long one of the most respected researchers of Bigfoot, Mr. Coleman comes out with one of the best works of the early years of this century on the subject. Many hours of fascinating reading. I can't seem to get enough of this stuff. Though I can't say I agree with him and others recent doubts about the famous Yale, British Columbia capture of "Jacko" back in 1884. A story that always seemed to have a ring of truth to it.Book Review: Great Read
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is a great read and a must have for anyone interested in such phenomina.Book Review: No longer innocent fun...
Summary: 3 Stars
Let me make it very clear right up front: I do NOT believe that Bigfoot/Sasquatch exists. However, when I was a child I was fascinated by this phenomena, and read several books on the subject.
In picking up this volume, I have returned to the topic after several years of not giving it much consideration. So initially, the book served as a sound and fairly measured refresher about the history of Bigfoot sightings and the search for more clues.
All this changed, however, when I reached the chapter about that "taboo" subject of Bigfoot sexuality. I was not sure whether I should be bemused or offended--that is, until the spurious account of a Bigfoot supposedly engaging in an indecent act in the middle of a field with a cow.
As a child, reading about Bigfoot was innocent fun. Of course, living in this society, it was inevitable that I would eventually be over-exposed to all of the problems plaguing our society. But at least for a time there were things that were safe and clean. Well, not anymore.
The inclusion and content of that chapter really shows how things have changed, and I suppose someday even this will be considered tame... And it's also a little absurd (considering what little amount of documented evidence there is for this probably non-existent creature) to even be speculating on such a subject in the first place.
So I give this book a 3-star rating; 5-star for the content exclusive of that chapter, 1-start for the chapter.
Book Review: Bigfooter Fodder
Summary: 3 Stars
My main interest in this book is its excellent section on Native Traditions which I've never seen adequately covered in any other book -- including John Green's classic works. With a bibliography to back up the references mentioned, you can easily dig up the original source material yourself. That alone makes this book a must-see or must-buy. However, one thing I should point out regarding the Gugwes quote from Parsons about chest beating (p28): The gray partridge, Perdix perdix (or Hungarian partridge -- "Huns" as we know them out in Alberta) is an introduced species which the Mi'kmaq knew nothing about. The partridge referred to by Parsons was a drumming ruffed grouse, which a chest-beating gorilla would sound somewhat like. The local term "partridge" covers a lot of birds, from real partridge to grouse to ptarmigan (Newfoundlanders use that name for willow ptarmigan.) I don't know Mr. Coleman, but for all his supposedly long forays into the field, he doesn't seem to know what a ruffed grouse sounds like! That's a minor quibble coming from a biologist and muddy field-naturalist...Book Review: Good historic summaray, strange conclusions
Summary: 3 Stars
Coleman's once again managed to repackage all the old saw horses of Bigfootery and tell it in an informal, entertaining fashion. Sadly, he still can't be bothered to crack open an anthropology text and figure out what species belong in what genera and what are valid taxonomic names in the present.
The photos are reproduced far too dark to see any useful info.
Perhaps not amazingly, the thought that any of the Bigfoot stories he's heard over the years might just be fiction never seems to enter Coleman's head. Exceptions being when a forgery is just so gob-smackingly obvious, it simply can't be ignored (ie, Ray Wallace's Bluff Creek tracks that kick started the entire phenomenon).
Over all, this is a good intro book to anyone who knows next to nothing about Bigfoot. It is heavily biased to support Coleman's personal belief that wild apes and apemen are running around in every state and every major geographic province in the US, but hey...that's Bigfootery!