Plenty of dragon legends among the natives in Illinois (Piasa (sp?) bird).
A bird is a dragon? Well. Learn something new every day.
And what's this about no desert yetis!?!?
Plenty of 'em!!!
The almas in the Mongolian desert!
Thought by some Russian scientists to be surviving Neandertals, based on footprints. They're not yetis. Yetis aren't sasquatches. I edited my post to refer to NA.
The BF's running around in N. Dakota, the southwestern US, and yes, even the interiors of Oregon and Washing to, not to mention Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana (all of which have areas considered to be desert based on annual precipitation budget and all claiming sightings and prints).
The 20 inches of rain myth was started by John Green and quickly falls to pieces when all data are considered. But, hey, why bring up facts in a discussion about Bigfeetsus? Carry on.
Myth, huh? I was wondering how someone could look at those maps and dismiss them entirely. You mean John Green the "editor"? who's "got a photo of it in his bible "Apes Among Us." "?
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2228110#post2228110
I have two copies, different editions, in my house as I write, and the photo is in neither. Who's making myths?
John looked for correlations with vegetation and population, but only found a "rough correlation" with rainfall. I don't have access to his database (he had close to 4000 reports when he gave up), so I'll have to rely on the BFRO's (unreliable, I know - they don't have them all, they don't publish them all and MM's a jerk):
Alaska 19
Arizona 38
Arkansas 64
California 347
Colorado 84
Connecticut 4
Delaware 2
Florida 106
Georgia 37
Hawaii
Idaho 49
Illinois 55
Indiana 47
Iowa 35
Kansas 26
Kentucky 46
Louisiana 32
Maine 13
Maryland 25
Massachusetts 10
Michigan 69
Minnesota 27
Mississippi 17
Missouri 52
Montana 23
Nebraska 7
Nevada 7
New Hampshire 9
New Jersey 35
New Mexico 30
New York 84
North Carolina 45
North Dakota 5
Ohio 190
Oklahoma 62
Oregon 197
Pennsylvania 78
Rhode Island 2
South Carolina 31
South Dakota 13
Tennessee 51
Texas 160
Utah 38
Vermont 6
Virginia 21
Washington 402
West Virginia 45
Wisconsin 41
Wyoming 24
http://www.bfro.net/gdb/#usa
Montana's right up there with.....Maryland. The first Montana town that came up on a Google search for rainfall has 22'' annually.
"ALTITUDE AND WEATHER - The elevation of Red Lodge is 5,555 feet. The annual rainfall in the area is 22 inches. Red Lodge, in a sample 30 year period, averaged only 3 days per year with maximum of 90 degrees or warmer and 26 days a year of temperatures of zero or colder. Red Lodge snowfall averages 52 inches per year, and there is an average of 105 frost-free days between June and September."
http://www.yellowstoneparknet.com/gateway_communities/red_lodge_montana.php
First report that came up, two witnesses, was of a female and offspring in a wooded area by a river.
See photos from the Pine Ridge res on the BBF thread concerning activity there for an idea of just how deserty
that is.
This is the sighting map for Montana:
http://www.bfro.net/GDB/state_listing.asp?state=mt#map
Central?
Compare the number of sightings to Washington State. Compare the number of sightings anywhere to Washington State.