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and trees and piled them up on its shores. This he set afire and boiled the lake. Paul's cooks threw in salt, pepper and bags of onions. When the water cooled it was the best of pea soup and with a fine ox-tail flavor. It was hauled to the cook shanty in casks and the loggers had pea soup all that winter. THE ROUND RIVER DRIVE-One day in the spring, when the water in the Big Auger River was high, Paul's crews rolled into the stream the logs cut on the Pyramid Forty. Soon the men were away on the biggest drive in logging history. They drove for several weeks expecting to arrive at a sawmill town and dispose of their logs. It was not until they had driven past their camp several times in the course of several months that the drive foreman became suspicious and went ashore. He found the site of the old camp. He realized that they were in a fix. They were on a river that was round and had no outlet. Here the cook. Sourdough Sam, saved the situation. He placed a large quantity of sourdough in the water. This soon raised the log drive up on the bank. Babe, the Blue Ox, was harnessed to large numbers of the logs at a time. He dragged them to another river and the difficulty was overcome. THE BUCKSKIN HARNESS-One day, Forty Jones, Paul's straw boss, saw some deer tracks on the banks of the Sawdust River. He watched for the animals. When they came to drink he removed the keylog from a pile of logs forty feet high. These rolled down on the deer and killed them. From the skins of these deer he made a harness for Babe, the Blue Ox. Pink-eye Martin was one day hauling logs with Babe for camp firewood. When he started from the river bank with his load it began to rain. The harness became wet and began to stretch. When he reached the camp Babe was at his side, but the sleigh and the load were still down near the river. He tied Babe to a tree and went into the cook shanty to help with the crew's dinner. While he was there the sun came out very hot. It soon dried the harness, which shrunk, and dragged the firewood load to camp. ELMER, THE REVERSIBLE DOG-Paul had a smart little dog named Elmer. He used him in his hunting. One night Paul thought he heard a rat in a corner of the bunkhouse. Reaching beneath his bunk for his double-bit axe he threw it in the direction of the noise. He heard a yelp. Going to the corner he found that he had cut Elmer in two. He was very fond of this poor dog. He put the two parts together and wrapped and tied a gunnysack about his middle. This was done in the dark. He got his hind end placed the wrong way. The rear legs were up instead of down. With good nursing Elmer got well. He became the best hunting dog in the North Woods. He could outrun any deer. He would run on one pair of legs until they were tired. Then he would turn over and use the other pair. Elmer hunted with his master for many years.
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 3] |
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 | TP423178 |
Owner | Wisconsin Historical Society Library |
Format | Text |
Size | 3 p. ; 20 cm. |
Owner Collection | Pamphlet Collection |
Owner Object ID | 98- 410 |
Genre | pamphlet; |
Full Text | and trees and piled them up on its shores. This he set afire and boiled the lake. Paul's cooks threw in salt, pepper and bags of onions. When the water cooled it was the best of pea soup and with a fine ox-tail flavor. It was hauled to the cook shanty in casks and the loggers had pea soup all that winter. THE ROUND RIVER DRIVE-One day in the spring, when the water in the Big Auger River was high, Paul's crews rolled into the stream the logs cut on the Pyramid Forty. Soon the men were away on the biggest drive in logging history. They drove for several weeks expecting to arrive at a sawmill town and dispose of their logs. It was not until they had driven past their camp several times in the course of several months that the drive foreman became suspicious and went ashore. He found the site of the old camp. He realized that they were in a fix. They were on a river that was round and had no outlet. Here the cook. Sourdough Sam, saved the situation. He placed a large quantity of sourdough in the water. This soon raised the log drive up on the bank. Babe, the Blue Ox, was harnessed to large numbers of the logs at a time. He dragged them to another river and the difficulty was overcome. THE BUCKSKIN HARNESS-One day, Forty Jones, Paul's straw boss, saw some deer tracks on the banks of the Sawdust River. He watched for the animals. When they came to drink he removed the keylog from a pile of logs forty feet high. These rolled down on the deer and killed them. From the skins of these deer he made a harness for Babe, the Blue Ox. Pink-eye Martin was one day hauling logs with Babe for camp firewood. When he started from the river bank with his load it began to rain. The harness became wet and began to stretch. When he reached the camp Babe was at his side, but the sleigh and the load were still down near the river. He tied Babe to a tree and went into the cook shanty to help with the crew's dinner. While he was there the sun came out very hot. It soon dried the harness, which shrunk, and dragged the firewood load to camp. ELMER, THE REVERSIBLE DOG-Paul had a smart little dog named Elmer. He used him in his hunting. One night Paul thought he heard a rat in a corner of the bunkhouse. Reaching beneath his bunk for his double-bit axe he threw it in the direction of the noise. He heard a yelp. Going to the corner he found that he had cut Elmer in two. He was very fond of this poor dog. He put the two parts together and wrapped and tied a gunnysack about his middle. This was done in the dark. He got his hind end placed the wrong way. The rear legs were up instead of down. With good nursing Elmer got well. He became the best hunting dog in the North Woods. He could outrun any deer. He would run on one pair of legs until they were tired. Then he would turn over and use the other pair. Elmer hunted with his master for many years. |
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