Peter Matthiessen, who is perhaps best known for his books The Snow Leopard (1978) and In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (1983), will be speaking in Idaho on October 19, on the topic “A Naturalist’s Impressions of the Wildman.” He will be sharing his insights about Yeti and Sasquatch, in a lecture arranged by anthropologist Jeff Meldrum.

Those who have closely read In the Spirit of Crazy Horse recall that Matthiessen talked of the Dakota/Lakota traditions and encounters with their “Big Men,” the local moniker for the Sasquatch.

Peter Matthiessen (b. May 22, 1927, New York City) is an American naturalist and author of some repute for his historical fiction and non-fiction, having penned over 30 books.

Matthiessen is also celebrated as a literary visionary, although there is a revealing new backstory. Along with George Plimpton, Harold Humes, Thomas Guinzburg and Donald Hall, he founded the literary magazine The Paris Review in 1953. In Doc about Harold Humes, a documentary that premiered in November 2006, by an Oscar-nominated filmmaker (one of Mr. Humes’s daughters), Peter Matthiessen admits publicly for the first time that he was a young C.I.A. recruit at the time he helped start the magazine, and used it as his cover.

See below for the poster of the upcoming event, which should be quite interesting:

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