Library of Cryptozoology

They saw a live elephant. At Valentine, Nebr. where them springs are is where they saw this Pa sno ta, a live elephant standing by a fall, a big spring.

"From these villages, they would go on Wah-ni-sa (Buffalo Hunt) up the Missouri River, way in the Rocky Mountains. They say where they step over the Nu-sho-day (Missouri River) they would follow the Rocky Mountains to Pikes Peak and they would come back to Nebraska and they would follow on the rivers back to Wah-ta where Fremont, Nebraska is. From Santee to Niobrara River, here they saw a Pa-snu-tah dead (an Elephant) ... PLC identified this animal as a "hairy elephant" ... ... The Twin Buttes were the places for the medicine men to perform. There is a cave in the east one there is where they saw a prehistoric animal, the Pah-snu-tah ... According to PLC this "hairy elephant" was alive." PLC [Peter Le Claire] ... in his "History" (p. 18) and in an interview, gives (and gave) the term Pásnuta (pa-snu-tah) for both the bones of extinct elephants and for the hairy mammoth allegedly seen by the Ponca near Butte, Nebr. He mentioned that this term w

The vulgar really imagine the Mammon to be a creature living in marshes and underground, and entertain many strange notions regarding it. The Tartars tell many fables of its having been seen alive... I have been told by Tartars in the Baraba that they have seen this creature called Mammon at the dawn of day near lakes and rivers; but that on discovering them the Mammon immediately tumbles into the water, and never appears in the daytime. They say it is about the size of a large elephant, with a monstrous large head and horns, with which he makes his way in marshy places and underground, where he conceals himself till night. I only mention these things as the reports of a superstitious and ignorant people.

I have been induced to name the Great Beaver in this catalogue because there is pretty certain evidence of the existence of such an animal in various parts of the interior towards the North-West. The Indians of many tribes firmly believe in its existence, and assert they have often seen it. I will take, or endeavour to take, an early opportunity to lay before the society such evidences as are in my possession to prove the fact; in the meanwhile, I will merely remark that the skull which was found on the banks of the Delaware nearly forty years ago–which induced the naturalists of the United States to create a new genus under the title of Asteopera –and which skull is still preserved in the Philadelphia Museum, in my mind belonged, beyond all doubt, to this animal, which is still in existence in our remote lakes and rivers in the interior.