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PRINCE OF AMERICAN LUMBERJACKS-Paul Bunyan was a powerful giant. He was seven feet tall and had a seven-foot stride. He was famous throughout the entire timber country of America for his great physical strength and his ability to accomplish great things. No undertaking was too great for Paul. He constructed the Great Lakes and Niagara Falls, he created the Mississippi River. He logged off the Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas. He piled up the mountain chains, and constructed the Grand Canyon and Puget Sound. American geography owes everything to Paul Bunyan. So great was his lung power that he called his logging crews by blowing through a hollow tree. Once he blew through it and felled ten acres of pine. He blew it upward and caused a destructive cyclone. To keep his big pipe filled required the entire time of a swamper with a scoop shovel. He could not write and ordered the supplies for his camp by drawing a picture of whatever he wanted. Once he ordered grindstones and got cheeses instead. He forgot to draw the holes. With his double-bit axe tied to the end of a piece of strong rope he could cut down acres of timber with a single stroke. For a big man Paul Bunyan was very quick on his feet. He could go to one end of the bunkhouse, blow out the light and get into his bunk before it got dark. HIS LOGGING CREW-Paul Bunyan had a great crew up in the Wisconsin pinery the Year of the Two Winters. His men were a well selected lot, coming from Maine, New Brunswick, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Ontario, Michigan and Wisconsin. Chris Crosshaul, the camp foreman, had such a sharp sight that he could see to the tops of the tallest pine trees in three looks. Big Joe Muftraw, the boss cook, could make flapjacks on the top of his big cook stove faster than two flunkeys with baskets could catch them. Before he began he strapped hams on the feet of two colored boys and had them skate over the top of the stove to grease it. His assistant. Sourdough Sam, baked bre^ loaves so big that Paul used some of them for bunkhouses. Shot Gunderson was the best log-spinner in the camp. Taking a 75-foot log he could spin it so fast witSf his feet that the log slid out of the bark and he walked ashore on the bubbles. Jim Liverpool was a great jumper. Planting his feet on the bank of the widest river he could jump across it in three jumps. Big Ole, the Swede, was the camp blacksmith. He was a very powerful man. When he struck his anvil the ring of the metal could be heard in the next county. \
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 2] |
Author | Brown, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1872-1946; |
Place of Publication | Madison, Wis. |
Source Publisher | Wisconsin Folklore Society |
Source Creation Date | 1945 |
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 | TP423145 |
Owner | Wisconsin Historical Society Library |
Format | Text |
Size | 7 p. ; 19 cm. |
Owner Collection | Pamphlet Collection |
Owner Object ID | 91- 3252 |
Genre | pamphlet; |
Full Text | PRINCE OF AMERICAN LUMBERJACKS-Paul Bunyan was a powerful giant. He was seven feet tall and had a seven-foot stride. He was famous throughout the entire timber country of America for his great physical strength and his ability to accomplish great things. No undertaking was too great for Paul. He constructed the Great Lakes and Niagara Falls, he created the Mississippi River. He logged off the Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas. He piled up the mountain chains, and constructed the Grand Canyon and Puget Sound. American geography owes everything to Paul Bunyan. So great was his lung power that he called his logging crews by blowing through a hollow tree. Once he blew through it and felled ten acres of pine. He blew it upward and caused a destructive cyclone. To keep his big pipe filled required the entire time of a swamper with a scoop shovel. He could not write and ordered the supplies for his camp by drawing a picture of whatever he wanted. Once he ordered grindstones and got cheeses instead. He forgot to draw the holes. With his double-bit axe tied to the end of a piece of strong rope he could cut down acres of timber with a single stroke. For a big man Paul Bunyan was very quick on his feet. He could go to one end of the bunkhouse, blow out the light and get into his bunk before it got dark. HIS LOGGING CREW-Paul Bunyan had a great crew up in the Wisconsin pinery the Year of the Two Winters. His men were a well selected lot, coming from Maine, New Brunswick, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Ontario, Michigan and Wisconsin. Chris Crosshaul, the camp foreman, had such a sharp sight that he could see to the tops of the tallest pine trees in three looks. Big Joe Muftraw, the boss cook, could make flapjacks on the top of his big cook stove faster than two flunkeys with baskets could catch them. Before he began he strapped hams on the feet of two colored boys and had them skate over the top of the stove to grease it. His assistant. Sourdough Sam, baked bre^ loaves so big that Paul used some of them for bunkhouses. Shot Gunderson was the best log-spinner in the camp. Taking a 75-foot log he could spin it so fast witSf his feet that the log slid out of the bark and he walked ashore on the bubbles. Jim Liverpool was a great jumper. Planting his feet on the bank of the widest river he could jump across it in three jumps. Big Ole, the Swede, was the camp blacksmith. He was a very powerful man. When he struck his anvil the ring of the metal could be heard in the next county. \ |
Type | Text |