 In "I was a Teenage Bigfoot", He hires Dresden sometime between the events of "Dead Beat" and "Proven Guilty" when his son falls ill. Dresden was travelling with a group in search of Bigfoot, when Dresden play-acts into screaming with terror upon seeing River Shoulders, an act which both causes the group to likewise scream and flee, as well as bemuse River Shoulders.As in "B is For Bigfoot", Dresden is paid in a gold nugget.In "Bigfoot on Campus", set between "Turn Coat" and "Changes", he is hired by Dresden, who instead bargains that River Shoulders' form of payment has to be actual contact with his son.