Not only did he tell the story, though, he went one step further and claimed that the Tombstone Epitaph had in 1886, “published a photograph of a huge bird nailed to a wall. The story was revived in 1930 in the book "On the Old West Coast" by Horace Bell, and then 33 years later, a writer named Jack Pearl mentioned the story in the sensationalistic men’s magazine Saga. What makes this story different, though, is that it has given rise to an odd, modern legend. Or least that’s the story that was allegedly told in an April 1892 issue of the Tombstone newspaper, the "Epitaph." This was the only mention of the story and it gave all of the appearances of the tall tales that were often written in the Western newspapers of the era. The cowboys cut off a piece of the wing and brought it with them into Tombstone, Arizona.
It was smooth and featherless, more like a bat than a bird.
The enormous wingspan of the creature was said to have been 160 feet and the body was more than 92 feet long.
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