[CarolinaGuitarman]

" As for giant squid being dinosaurs -- I don't know what else you would call things that were bigger than the boat -"

How about cephalopod? :) You see, precision in using words IS important in science.

"I also read that there was a Loch Ness dinosaur like monster that used to terrorize Mormons and settlers and Indians in the Nevada area in some isolated lake there up through the 1850's."

Those beasts were really space aliens from area 51. And don't say I have no evidence; I have as much as the claim there was a Loch Ness type dinosaur in the 1850's.

[Californiajones]

Hey, just reporting what I read doing research for a project on the time period a long time ago. Look it up -- it was documented to the point that the Indians had some sort of magic ritual about it or something. Google is your friend, tho this was a pre internet project.