Visitor from the East

"Visitor from the East" is the first of two short works by Harry Turtledove, published in Thirty Days Later: Steaming Forward: 30 Adventures in Time (A.J. Sikes, B.J. Sikes, and Dover Whitecliff, ed., Thinking Ink Press 2016). It is the first of three works to feature Bill Williamson, the Sasquatch governor of the state of Jefferson. The story is essentially a vignette, set in August, 1979, spotlighting Governor Williamson's meeting/photo-op with the Yeti Lama of Tibet. The story gives a quick sketch of Jefferson's history and comparatively open culture, and hints at the broad role sasquatches have played in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.