The word comes from the Salish se'sxac, meaning "wild men." In the archive it names a large, hairy, man-like creature of the forests. 1811. David Thompson measured a giant track in the snow by the Athabasca River, later called the first sasquatch footprint found by a European. Summer 1924. Albert Ostman claimed a Sasquatch family held him near Toba Inlet, the classic captivity story. At Ruby Creek in 1941, the Chapman family had their own encounter. Researchers such as John Green and René Dahinden carried the name through decades of reports.
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