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  2. Paul Bunyan - Wikipedia

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    Paul Bunyan is a giant lumberjack and folk hero in American [2] and Canadian folklore. [3] His tall tales revolve around his superhuman labors, [4] [5] and he is customarily accompanied by Babe the Blue Ox, his pet and working animal.

  3. Lumberjack - Wikipedia

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    The most famous depiction of a lumberjack in folklore is Paul Bunyan. Several towns claim to have been Paul Bunyan's home and have constructed statues of Bunyan and his blue ox "Babe". [43] Known for their many exploits, many real life loggers have become renowned for their extraordinary strength, intuition, and knowledge of the woods.

  4. Fearsome critters - Wikipedia

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    The hugag, a typical fearsome critter.Illustration by Coert DuBois from Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods by William T. Cox.. In North American folklore and American mythology, fearsome critters were tall tale animals jokingly said to inhabit the wilderness in or around logging camps, [1] [2] [3] especially in the Great Lakes region.

  5. James Stevens (writer) - Wikipedia

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    Paul Bunyan, The Frozen Logger, James Stevens (1892 – December 31, 1971) was an American writer and composer . Born in Albia, Iowa , [ 1 ] he lived in Idaho from a young age, and based much of his later novel Big Jim Turner (1948) on his childhood spent in Pacific Northwest logging camps.

  6. Log Chute - Wikipedia

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    Log Chute, formerly known as Paul Bunyan's Log Chute sometimes Fog Chute for Halloween [1] or Yule Log Chute for Christmas, [2] and the Love Chute for Valentine's Day [3] is a log flume attraction sponsored by Xcel Energy (formerly sponsored by Brawny) at Mall of America's Nickelodeon Universe in Bloomington, Minnesota. [4]

  7. Ol' Paul, the Mighty Logger - Wikipedia

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    Ol' Paul, the Mighty Logger is an anthology of ten original Paul Bunyan tall tales: it was written and illustrated by Glen Rounds, and published by Holiday House in 1936. [1] Upon its publication, Kirkus Reviews praised it, saying that "there's a harmony about this book -- the telling of familiar episodes from the Paul Bunyan legend, the ...

  8. Canadian folklore - Wikipedia

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    It includes songs, legends, jokes, rhymes, proverbs, weather lore, superstitions, and practices such as traditional food-making and craft-making. The largest bodies of folklore in Canada belong to the aboriginal and French-Canadian cultures. English-Canadian folklore and the folklore of recent immigrant groups have added to the country's folk.

  9. Esther Shephard - Wikipedia

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    Shephard's classic work is Paul Bunyan, a collection of logging tales initially published in a limited edition by the McNeil Press in 1924. According to a laudatory review in the Washington Historical Quarterly, Shephard began investigating the tall tales of Paul Bunyan in Washington state as part of her master's thesis on frontier literature. [14]