MUIRHEAD'S MYSTERIES: Hunting the ground sloth

Here are two newspaper stories, one from the San Francisco Call, May 19^th 1901, and the other from the Washington Times, January 18^th 1920 on the hunt for a living Giant Sloth in Patagonia.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1901-05-19/ed-1/seq-3/#d

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1920-01-18/ed-1/seq