prof.Turnitin 03/13/17

· 1862 At the battle of Glorieta, New Mexico, which marks the end of the Confederate effort to conquer the southwest/western US, reports of ‘giant man-apes’ in the mountains spread among Confederate soldiers. The reports eerily echo ancient Taos Indian myths of giant mountain-dwelling cannibals. The rebels speak of the creatures with fear; popular reports (no doubt spiked with racial animus over the status of slavery in the Union) have them fighting for the North. Confederate mythology later puts the USA’s victory down to smallpox and travel-attrition among CSA troops.

· Late 1862 Sightings of ‘large brown bears walking about on hindlegs’ are reported in newspapers as far east as Tennessee.

· Christmas 1862 A small warband of Sasquatch, armed with shaped stones, approach a Union garrison in the Rocky Mountains. Hostilities are narrowly averted when a Union scout is able to make out snatches of English in the Sasquatch’s speech.

· 1863 A regiment of Sasquatch troops, helmeted in bone and wielded 70lb quarterstaves, takes part in the successful Union siege of Vicksburg.

· 1865 Two Sasquatch are awarded posthumous Medals of Honour by President Johnson. The field of modern identity politics is born.

· 1870s Growing numbers of Sasquatch, integrating with remarkable (though still limited) success into rural life, are employed by local law-enforcement agencies in roles from labourer to (infamously) Federal marshal. Sixty Sasquatch enter employment with the Pinkertons Detective Agency.

· 1882 After a bloody and somewhat ambiguous incident involving a group of schoolchildren and a rabid dog, a Sasquatch is lynched in Huntsville, Alabama.

· 1884 Sasquatch Rebellion.