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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. Febold Feboldson - Wikipedia

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    Beath's original story, "Paul Bunyan and Febold," is as much a story about Paul Bunyan as it is about Febold Feboldson. In the story, which attempts to account for the death of Babe the Blue Ox, Feboldson and Bunyan are both portrayed as giants who helped settle the American West. According to the tale, Feboldson and Bunyan met when they were ...

  4. Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox - Wikipedia

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    Paul Bunyan is approximately 18 feet (5.5 m) tall and measures 5 feet (1.5 m) across at his base. From toe to heel, Paul Bunyan measures 3 feet (0.91 m). Babe the Blue Ox is about 10 feet (3 m) tall and 8 feet (2.4 m) across at the front hooves. From nose to tail, Babe measures about 23 feet (7.0 m). [3]

  5. Johnny Kaw - Wikipedia

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    Johnny Kaw is a fictional Kansas settler and the subject of a number of Paul Bunyan-esque tall tales about the settling of the territory. The legend of Johnny Kaw was created in 1955 by George Filinger, a professor of horticulture at Kansas State University , to celebrate the centennial of Manhattan, Kansas .

  6. Michigan–Michigan State football rivalry - Wikipedia

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    In 1953, the "Paul Bunyan – Governor of Michigan Trophy", or simply the Paul Bunyan Trophy, was introduced into the rivalry. It is a four-foot tall wooden statue of Paul Bunyan, the giant lumberjack of American folklore, mounted on a five-foot base. It reflects Michigan's history as a major lumber-producing state.

  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. 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]

  9. Gillygaloo - Wikipedia

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    The pamphlet "Paul Bunyan Natural History" was created by Brown with source material derived from original interviews conducted among veteran loggers in the Great Lakes. Republished in B.A. Botkin's A Treasury of American Folklore, in the pamphlet, Brown relates: GILLYGALOO. This hillside plover nested on the slopes of Bunyan's famous Pyramid ...