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Second-hand story about a Stony Indian woman's encounter.
Wagon occupants traveling on a dirt road near a lake stopped when a large hair-covered human-like figure was seen standing in the road ahead. One occupant covered the others in the wagon and the group turned the vehicle around to leave the area.
A surveyor and trader for the Northwest Company comes across tracks of an unusually large, unidentified animal
A surveying party traveling through the Rocky Mountains in winter came upon a large, well-defined track in shallow snow on ice. The track was measured at about fourteen inches long by eight inches wide with four toe marks and was seen extending about a hundred yards from north to south. The party chose not to follow it, with companions unwilling to pursue such a large animal with small guns, and the party leader recorded uncertainty whether it was an unusually large bear or something else.