(Historic) Tom Slick
Thomas Baker "Tom" Slick, Jr. (1916–October 6, 1962) was a San Antonio, Texas, inventor, businessman, adventurer, and heir to an oil business. Slick's father made a fortune during the Texas oil boom of the 1920s.
Adventurer
Slick spent much of his life funding and organising expeditions to search for unknown creatures, and he spent a considerable fortune hunting the Loch Ness Monster, the yeti, and the North American bigfoot, often teaming up with Peter Byrne.
Slick died in 1962 in an airplane crash near Dell, Montana, at the age of 46, dealing a crippling blow to the nascent field of cryptozoology.
"When that plane exploded," wrote Loren Coleman, "all of the funding for serious cryptozoological research disappeared."
Biography
Nicolas Cage was to have portrayed Slick in a movie, Tom Slick: Monster Hunter, but the project stalled.
1989 - 'Tom Slick and the Search for Yeti' by Loren Coleman
2002 - Tom Slick: True Life Encounters in Cryptozoology - Loren Coleman
2004 - King Of The Wildcatters: The Life and Times of Tom Slick, 1883-1930 (Kenneth E. Montague Series in Oil and Business History) - Ray Miles
2005 - Tom Slick Mystery Hunter - Catherine Nixon-Cooke
