Beginning in California in the 1830s flying dragons have been a fixture in the West. They appear to be an amalgamation of western European and Native American lore. There’ve been flying crocadiles, dog-headed monsters, dinosaur-like and various sundry flying amphibious monsters.
The Tombstone Epitaph ran an article on April 26th, 1890 about two cowboys out in the desert between the Huachuca and Whetstone Mountains who came upon a “winged monster resembling a huge alligator with an extreme
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