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PAUL BUNYAN IN THE OLD NORTHWEST
Paul Bunyan was a powerful giant, seven feet tall and with a stride of seven feet. He was famous throughout the lumbering dis¬ tricts for his great physical strength. So great was his lung capacity that he called his men by blowing through a hollow tree. When he spoke limbs sometimes fell. To keep his pipe filled required the en¬ tire time of a swamper with a scoop shovel. He could not write and ordered the supplies for his camp by drawing the picture of what he wanted. Once he ordered grindstones and got cheese instead. He forgot to draw the holes. He kept the time of his men by cutting notches in a piece of wood.
No undertaking was too great for Paul. Lumberjacks say that he is the man who logged the timber off North Dakota. He also scooped out the hole for Lake Superior. This he used for a reservoir as he was needing water to ice his logging roads. The Mississippi River was caused by the overturning of a water tank when his ox slipp>ed.
HIS LOGGING CREW
His logging crew on the Big Onion River, "the winter of the blue snow", in 1862 or 186S, was so large that the men were divided into three gangs. One of these was always going to work, a second was at work, and a third was alwaj's returning to camp from work. This kept the cooks busy, for when they had finished preparing breakfast for one crew they had to prepare dinner for another and then sup¬ per for a third.
To sharpen their axes the men sometimes rolled boulders down the steep hillsides and running beside them ground the blades against the revolving stones. One shantyboy pressed his nose to one of the stones by mistake and had it ground neatly off.
Paul had a great crew up in the Big Woods the Year of the Two Winters. Jim Liverpool was a great jumper. Planting his feet on the bank of a river he could jump across it in three jumps. Big Joe Mufraw (Mufferon) the boss cook was a very talented man. With his caulked boots he could kick his initials into a ceiling eight feet high with one foot, then wipe them out as fast as he kicked them in
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Object Description
| Page Title | Folklore Pamphlets, 1921-1945 |
| Author | Brown, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1872-1946 |
| Place of Publication | Madison, Wis. |
| Source Creation Date | 1921-1945 |
| Language | English |
| Digital Format | XML |
| Electronic Publisher | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Rights | We believe that online reproduction of this material is permitted because its copyright protection has lapsed or because sharing it here for non-profit educational purposes complies with the Fair Use provisions of the U.S. Copyright Law. Teachers and students are generally free to reproduce pages for nonprofit classroom use. For advice about other uses, or if you believe that you possess copyright to some of this material, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. |
| Electronic Publication Date | 2006 |
| Digital Identifier | TP423000 |
| Description |
Charles E. Brown (1872-1946) was curator of the Museum of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and secretary of the Wisconsin Archaeological Society. He also collected a substantial body of folklore on Wisconsin Indians, lumbering, steamboating, local history, and related topics which he published in pamphlet form. Brown created these pamphlets for the Wisconsin Archaeological Society, the Wisconsin Folklore Society, courses he taught during University of Wisconsin summer sessions, and simply as privately published booklets for the amusement of his friends and colleagues. Most are only 4-8 pages long. In the printed booklets, Brown did not usually cite sources for the tales, but his correspondence and research notes are available in the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives in boxes 2-10 of Wis Mss HB.
The links below will open a collection of 47 pamphlets totaling 444 pages that were issued between 1921 and 1945 (all that are known to exist). They have been grouped loosely according to subject and appear in the following order: Native American Folklore: Indian Folk Lore (1921), Moccasin Tales (1935), Birchbark Tales (1941), Lake Mendota Indian Legends (1927), Indian Flower Toys and Games (1931), Lake Mendota: Prehistory, History and Legends (1933), Winabozho, Hero-God of the Indians of the Old Northwest (1944), Indian Star Lore (1930), Wigwam Tales (1930) Lumbering and Logging: Paul Bunyan Tales (1922; revised editions, 1927 and 1929), Paul Bunyan and Tony Beaver Tales (1930), Paul Bunyan, American Hercules (1937), Paul Bunyan Classics (1945), Paul Bunyan Natural History (1935), Flapjacks from Paul Bunyan's Cook Shanty (1941), Brimstone Bill (1942), Johnny Inkslinger (1944), Bunyan Bunkhouse Yarns (1945), Shanty Boy (1945), Ole Olson (1945), Sourdough Sam (1945) Other Wisconsin & American Folklore: Ghost Tales (1931), The Ridgeway Ghost (1943), "Cousin Jack" Stories (1940; Cornish folklore), Prairie Stories (1934), Whiskey Jack Yarns (1940; river rafting folklore), Old Man River (1940), Sea Serpents (1942), Bluenose Brainerd Stories (1943), Bear Tales (1944), Ben Hooper Tales (1944), Hermits (1945), Lost Treasure Tales (1945), Flower Toys and Games (1923), Insect Lore (1929), Cowboy Tales (1929), Little Stories about George Washington (1932), Gems: Magic, Mystery and Myths of Precious Stones (1932), Old Stormalong Yarns (1933), Cloud Lore (1935), Gypsy Lore (1935), Flower Lore (1938), The Trees of the Campus (1925), Wisconsin Indians (1933), French Pathfinders of Wisconsin (1934) |
| Owner | Wisconsin Historical Society Library |
| Format | Text |
| Recommended Citation | Use the bibliographic data on the cover or title page of each individual pamphlet, concluding with the phrase Online facsimile at http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=1622 |
| Document Number | TP423 |
| Size | 46 items ; 19-28 cm. |
| URL | http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=1622 |
| Owner Collection | Pamphlet Collection; Pamphlets in Rare Book Collection |
| Genre | pamphlet; |
| State/Province | Wisconsin |
| Sub-Topic | Mid-19th century Immigration; Development of the Railroads; Early U.S. Settlement; Farming and Rural Life; The French Fur Trade; Great Lakes Steamships and Canals; Lead Mining in SOuthwestern Wisconsin; Lumbering and Forest Products; |
| Art | Folklore |
| Education | University of Wisconsin |
| Type | Text |
Description
| Page Title | Page 7 |
| Author | Brown, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1872-1946; |
| Place of Publication | Madison, Wis. |
| Source Publisher | C.E. Brown |
| Source Creation Date | 1930 |
| Language | English |
| Digital Format | JPG |
| Electronic Publisher | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Rights | We believe that online reproduction of this material is permitted because its copyright protection has lapsed or because sharing it here for non-profit educational purposes complies with the Fair Use provisions of the U.S. Copyright Law. Teachers and students are generally free to reproduce pages for nonprofit classroom use. For advice about other uses, or if you believe that you possess copyright to some of this material, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. |
| Electronic Publication Date | 2006 |
| Digital Identifier | TP423122 |
| Owner | Wisconsin Historical Society Library |
| Format | Text |
| Size | 18 p. ; 19 cm. |
| Owner Collection | Pamphlet Collection |
| Owner Object ID | 98- 411 |
| Genre | pamphlet; |
| Full Text | PAUL BUNYAN IN THE OLD NORTHWEST Paul Bunyan was a powerful giant, seven feet tall and with a stride of seven feet. He was famous throughout the lumbering dis¬ tricts for his great physical strength. So great was his lung capacity that he called his men by blowing through a hollow tree. When he spoke limbs sometimes fell. To keep his pipe filled required the en¬ tire time of a swamper with a scoop shovel. He could not write and ordered the supplies for his camp by drawing the picture of what he wanted. Once he ordered grindstones and got cheese instead. He forgot to draw the holes. He kept the time of his men by cutting notches in a piece of wood. No undertaking was too great for Paul. Lumberjacks say that he is the man who logged the timber off North Dakota. He also scooped out the hole for Lake Superior. This he used for a reservoir as he was needing water to ice his logging roads. The Mississippi River was caused by the overturning of a water tank when his ox slipp>ed. HIS LOGGING CREW His logging crew on the Big Onion River, "the winter of the blue snow", in 1862 or 186S, was so large that the men were divided into three gangs. One of these was always going to work, a second was at work, and a third was alwaj's returning to camp from work. This kept the cooks busy, for when they had finished preparing breakfast for one crew they had to prepare dinner for another and then sup¬ per for a third. To sharpen their axes the men sometimes rolled boulders down the steep hillsides and running beside them ground the blades against the revolving stones. One shantyboy pressed his nose to one of the stones by mistake and had it ground neatly off. Paul had a great crew up in the Big Woods the Year of the Two Winters. Jim Liverpool was a great jumper. Planting his feet on the bank of a river he could jump across it in three jumps. Big Joe Mufraw (Mufferon) the boss cook was a very talented man. With his caulked boots he could kick his initials into a ceiling eight feet high with one foot, then wipe them out as fast as he kicked them in 7 |
| Type | Text |