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Author: Jan Gleiter
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Published: 1984-09
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780817222727
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTall tales of the mighty logger, including his birth and his adventures in a logging camp, in the South Dakota forests, and among the California redwoods.
Author: Jon C. Stott
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2015-06-15
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1625852053
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Gathers the oral traditions of the loggers who settled Michigan’s Upper Peninsula . . . Stott preserves the tall tales for generations to come.” —Grandpa Shorter’s, “Seven Michigan Authors to Put in Your Beach Bag This Summer” The loggers who settled Michigan’s Upper Peninsula whiled away winter evenings with tales of extreme weather, strange geography, legendary beasts and improbable feats. One mythic figure strode confidently from one story to the next, his legend growing with each retelling. Soon, Paul Bunyan began to appear in newspapers, magazines, books and even a Walt Disney cartoon. In this first collection since 1946 set exclusively in the UP, author Jon C. Stott recaptures the oral tradition that cast Bunyan’s shadow across the national imagination. Relive the winter of the blue snow and cross paths with familiar companions like Babe and Johnny Inskslinger, as well as odd creatures like the hodag and the agropelter.
Author: Michael Edmonds
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Published: 2010-09-24
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 0870204718
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery American has heard of the lumberjack hero Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox. For 100 years his exploits filled cartoons, magazines, short stories, and children's books, and his name advertised everything from pancake breakfasts to construction supplies. By 1950 Bunyan was a ubiquitous icon of America's strength and ingenuity. Until now, no one knew where he came from—and the extent to which this mythical hero is rooted in Wisconsin. Out of the Northwoods presents the culture of nineteenth-century lumberjacks in their own words. It includes eyewitness accounts of how the first Bunyan stories were shared on frigid winter nights, around logging camp stoves, in the Wisconsin pinery. It describes where the tales began, how they moved out of the forest and into print, and why publication changed them forever. Part bibliographic mystery and part social history, Out of the Northwoods explains for the first time why we all know and love Paul Bunyan.
Author: Esther Shephard
Publisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace
Published: 1924
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwenty-one stories about the legendary hero of loggers, Paul Bunyan.
Author: Sheryl James
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2013-04-16
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 0472051741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of stories drawn from Michigan’s rich folk heritage
Author: James Cloyd Bowman
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1590172248
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelates some of the legends of Pecos Bill, from the moment he bounced out of his family's covered wagon to the day his long-lost brother appears and explains that Bill is not like the coyotes that have raised him.
Author: D. Laurence Rogers
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTimber fellers in action with broad axes in Michigan's North Woods during the lumbering heyday, 1865-1885.
Author: Sally Barber
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2011-10-18
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 0762777494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis selection of 12 stories from Michigan's past explores some of the Great Lakes State's most compelling mysteries and debunks some of its most famous myths.
Author: Dell J. McCormick
Publisher: Caxton Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780870070938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChildren of all ages will enjoy these tales of Paul Bunyan, mythical giant lumberjack of the North Woods. Exciting and rollicking stories--seventeen in all. A perpetual best-seller the country over, this book has sold more than one million copies.
Author: Matthew R Thick
Publisher: MSU Press
Published: 2018-01-01
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1628953187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMichigan’s location among the Great Lakes has positioned it at the crossroads of many worlds. Its first hunters arrived ten thousand years ago, its first farmers arrived about six thousand years after that, and three hundred years ago the French expanded into the territory. This book is a small sample of the words of Michigan’s people—a collection of stories, letters, diary entries, news reports, and other documents—that give personal insights into important aspects of Michigan’s history. Designed to provoke thought and discussion about Michigan’s past, the documents in this reader are expressions of past ideas, markers of change, and windows into the lives of the people who lived during well-known events in Michigan history.
