In December 2019, a Chihuahuan Desert place became the country's newest national park, White Sands, in New Mexico, preserves a vast, shining dunefield. But like every national park, its wonders are manifold.

In recent years, researchers here have found thousands of fossilized Ice Age footprints – of vanished animals, and of humans. It's an unparalleled record, and it speaks as powerfully as any artifact could to the life of the continent's earliest people.

“The story sort of begins with Bigfoot,” David Bustos, the park's chief of resources, said.

In 1932, a government trapper named Ellis Wright returned from an outing here with a Sasquatch story. He said he'd found footprint... Hosted by for KRTS