Cowboys & Saurians South of the Border

During the closing days of the Wild West, some outlaws like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid fled south of the border to escape the law. Likewise, adventurous souls who no longer felt the West was wild enough for them also journeyed down south in search of adventure. Some of them, like prospector Buckskin Joe and sharpshooter Martin Sheffield, found more than they bargained for. Wilder than anything encountered in the Wild West, south of the border you’ll find a land of monsters. Down Mexico way, the ferocious Onza stalks the Sierra Madres, while the vicious Sisimite haunts the hellish jungles of Honduras. Further south, you’ll find a whole continent full of lost worlds and prehistoric plateaus harboring everything from antediluvian armadillos, vampire vines and snake trees, tribes of bow and arrow wielding ape-men, and of course: dinosaurs.In the pages ahead, you’ll ask yourself: Did the director of the Buenos Aires Zoo fake a plesiosaur sighting to try and catch a Neomylodon? Was a luminous terror bird just a random cryptid sighting or a bad omen à la Mothman? Did J. Frank Dobie kill a Skinwalker in the form of an Onza, or was it just a tall tale? Was former President Theodore Roosevelt really serious about hunting a plesiosaur in Patagonia? And, finally, are the ceramic dinosaur figurines of Acámbaro proof of dinosaurs co-existing with humans, or just clever forgeries?Stitched together from real newspaper accounts and the journals of early 20th Century explorers, learn the true stories that inspired the classic Sir Arthur Conan Doyle novel The Lost World… Read more