Folklore Pamphlets, 1921-1945

              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.
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