The Lost Ship of the Desert is the subject of legends about various historical maritime vessels having supposedly become stranded and subsequently lost...

rounding Cape Horn. Mocha Dick was quite docile, sometimes swimming alongside the ship, but once attacked he retaliated with ferocity and cunning, and was widely...

Mexico) began to hear rumors of "Seven Cities of Gold" called "Cíbola" located across the desert, hundreds of miles to the north. The stories may have their...

celebrates the Squonk at the Squonkapalooza in August. The first written account of the squonk was from the 1910 book Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods...

The hoop snake is a legendary creature of the United States, Canada, and Australia. It appears in the Pecos Bill stories; although his description of...

Spanish: [la ʝoˈɾona]; 'the Crying Woman, the Wailer') is a vengeful ghost in Mexican folklore who is said to roam near bodies of water mourning her children...

the creature. However, given the condition of the remains, the deaths may more likely have been the result of passing trains. Despite evidence to the...

narrowly lost in 1835, prompting his angry departure to Texas (then the Mexican state of Tejas) shortly thereafter. In early 1836, he took part in the Texas...

deemed the dregs or outcasts of society: poor farmers, fugitives, brigands, Native Americans, poachers, moonshiners, runaway slaves, and deserting soldiers...

author Patrick Boyton published a history of the snallygaster, entitled Snallygaster: the Lost Legend of Frederick County. In 2011 an annual beer festival...

much that the Gulf of Mexico was created. Another story is of him creating the Rio Grande River. He and his horse got stranded in the desert and needed...

sailor whose ship was so big that it scraped the Moon The Australian frontier (known as the bush or the outback) similarly inspired the types of tall tales...

from the ashes of cremated oxen, as the incarnation of the accumulation of abuse the animals had suffered at the hands of their masters. The history of the...

early intrusions of coyotes or jaguarundi, the livestock deaths were attributed to the Wampus cat. The Wampus cat is the mascot of the following: Clark...

customarily accompanied by Babe the Blue Ox, his pet and working animal. The character originated in the oral tradition of North American loggers, and was...

story of Captain Kidd's lost treasure, and the story of the Lost Pegleg mine in California. People have been seeking the Lost Dutchman's mine since at...

majority of mainstream scientists have historically discounted the existence of the skunk ape, considering it to be the result of a combination of folklore...

in the U.S. are named after Geronimo: one each in Arizona, Oklahoma, and Texas. Also named after him was the SS Geronimo, a WWII Liberty ship. In the U...

bowlers – The ghosts of Henry Hudson's crewmen from his ship, the Half-Moon; they share their liquor with Rip Van Winkle and play a game of nine-pins...

into a rock to make holes for explosives to blast the rock in constructing a railroad tunnel. The story of John Henry is told in a classic blues folk song...

A snipe hunt is a type of practical joke or fool's errand, in existence in North America as early as the 1840s, in which an unsuspecting newcomer is duped...

tradesmen, listed chronologically, are: Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts, by William T. Cox (Washington, D.C...

a thick coat of fur to maintain its body heat. Tales of furry fish date to the 17th-century and later the "shaggy trout" of Iceland. The earliest known...

The cactus cat is a legendary "fearsome critter" of the American Southwest. The cactus cat was generally described being a bobcat-like creature, covered...

to hidden caches of gold lost after the American Civil War. Millions of dollars' worth of gold was lost or unaccounted for after the war, and its possible...

Stoddard County, Missouri. Ghost towns of the American West Ghost town Gallery Lost America Monument Gallery Ghosttowns of the US at Rootsweb Ghosttowns.de...

an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman. One of the most famous and well-known figures of the American Old West, Cody started his legend when he...

(9.1 m) tall; he was the master of a huge clipper ship known in various sources as either the Courser or the Tuscarora, a ship purportedly so tall that...

issued in 1978 for the 200th anniversary of the battle. "Molly" was further honored in World War II with the naming of the Liberty ship SS Molly Pitcher...

Elfego Baca: Good Man, Bad Man of the Old West", pp. 68–76 Miller, Rod (May 1, 2015). The Lost Frontier: Momentous Moments in the Old West You May Have Missed...