Incident #1001121
Dillon, Beaverhead Cty, Montana
Oct 1960
Account
Dean Staton was hunting when he came across bare humanlike tracks 17 inches long, 9 inches wide at the ball and 5 inches at the heel. They went over a windfall four feet off the ground without breaking stride, heading west across an open side of the mountain. Staton followed about 300 yards, then lost the trail on a rocky slope. Dr. Feathers says this was 15 miles Southwest of Jackson about 12 miles South of the Chief Joseph Pass Highway, which is contradictory. He also says between Moose Creek and Rock Creek trails, not on a 1:500,000 map. Greg Mastel has what appears to be the same story, but the name is Dean Stratton, the date 1965, the location on Moose Rouse ranch, lower drainage of Misslin Creek, in the Pioneer Mountains between Wisdom and Jackson.
When
- Month
- Oct
- Year
- 1960
- Season
- fall
Where
- State / province
- Montana
- County
- Beaverhead Cty
- Nearest Town
- Dillon
- Direction from Town
- West Northwest
- Distance from Town
- 50
- Population of Town
- 4000
- Latitude
- 452---
- Longitude
- 1133---
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- Shot Hit
- No
Witnesses
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
- Exact Terrain
- hillside
- Slope
- steep
Source
- Source
- Dr. Joseph Feathers quoting Dean Staton
- Source Type
- letter
- Source Date
- FEB 10 1965
- Source reliability
- 6
- Incident reliablility
- 5
- Jwg file date
- FEB 1965
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 17.0
- Greates Width
- 9.0
- Heel Width
- 5.0
- Number of Tracks
- 200
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Obsticles Offering Choice
- over
- Direction of Travel
- West
- Material Tracks Made in
- snow
Witness
- Interviewer
- Dr. Joseph Feathers, presumably. (Staton one of his students at Western Montana College of Education)
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- hunting
- Track witnesses
- 1
- Age
- 16 to 20