Rating: 
Summary: Sure to be a classic!
Review: Through the years I've read many published articles and books in regards to this enigmatic creature. They were good to say the least but were missing vital ingredients, i.e., "The Story Behind the Story." This is where Loren Coleman comes in and fills in the missing pieces. He digs further into these accounts and we get a much clearer picture of important facts and details that other authors ignored,neglected or
inadverdantly left out. There is no glossing over or added embellishments to placate those in need of sensationalism.Overall this book is a great read and relief from the canned gibberish that emanates from the so-called Bigfoot "experts"
whose sites proliferate the Internet. Like Joe Friday of Dragnet fame use to say,"Just the facts,ma'am."
Rating: 
Summary: Terrible
Review: Unfortunately, this is a terrible book. I was looking for a definitive text that would both summarize the history of the Bigfoot phenomenon, as well as smartly capture the current theories and efforts to further explore the creature. This book did neither, or at least did not do so in a useful and intelligent manner.
The author does summarize in a fashion the history of Bigfoot sightings and encounters, and includes supposed historical cultural references to a large, anthropic, North American cryptid. This summary, however, is haphazard at best, and incompetent at average, and purposefully misleading at worst. It is very poorly written from a purely literary standpoint. The author darts all over the subject, going form place to place and time period to time period with no logic or cohesion.
This was probably the most frustrating thing for me- that the cultural history of Bigfoot was treated in a fashion as to make it unreadable and useless. I was really looking forward to learning the similarities and differences in Bigfoot legends amongst the many wonderful First American tribes across the continent. Unfortunately, the subject was treated like a trailer full of lies, half-truths, and ill-formed conclusions, all tossed about by a tornado.
I would advise to NOT purchase this book. While I do not know which of the many Bigfoot books out there are any better, I do know this one is not worth the time of anyone with even a slightly intelligent and analytic mind.
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