Millionaire-Funded Expedition Seeks to Capture Bigfoot in California

In 1960, a well-financed expedition led by Tom Slick, a San Antonio millionaire, and Ivan T Sanderson, a renowned zoologist, embarked on a quest to find the elusive Bigfoot in the heavily timbered terrain of Northern Humboldt and Southern Del Norte counties in California. The expedition, which has been ongoing since early fall of 1959, involves four camps and is being coordinated by Robert Titmus, a Reading, California taxidermist. The exploration is being financed by several individuals, including F Kirk Johnson, a Fort Worth oil man, C.V wood, president of Freedom land organization in New York, and Wally Hines of international latex Company of New York. The team is analyzing tracks, searching for a skeleton, and studying droppings, with the goal of capturing or photographing the creature for both scientific and commercial purposes.