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Pecos Bill made the leap to film in the 1948 Walt Disney animated feature Melody Time. He was portrayed by Steve Guttenberg in a 1985 episode of Tall Tales & Legends and by Patrick Swayze in Disney's 1995 film Tall Tale. "Pecos Bill" was also the nickname of Civil War general William Shafter, [4] although this was before O'Reilly created the ...
Pecos Bill is a mythical American cowboy. Pecos Bill may also refer to: Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn and Cafe, a restaurant in Walt Disney World and Tokyo Disneyland; Pecos Bill, an Italian comic series; Pecos Bill, a 1988 album by Robin Williams; Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time, a 1937 novel by James Cloyd Bowman
Despite the market of western comics was quite inflated (Tex, Piccolo sceriffo, Captain Miki, Kinowa) the Pecos Bill comics were quite successful. [2] The comic version of Pecos Bill distinguished by the total rejection of the use of firearms (he was instead very skilled with the lasso) and by the characteristic of never killing his enemies. [2]
Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time is a children's novel by James Cloyd Bowman about the American folk hero Pecos Bill. Raised by coyotes , the hero has various supernatural powers, including the ability to talk to animals, and becomes a spectacularly successful cowboy . [ 1 ]
[1] [2] In 1949 he created with Guido Martina his major success, the popular western series Pecos Bill, and in 1952 the adventure series Oklahoma. [1] [2] Following the end of the Pecos Bill series, Paparella collaborated with the publisher Edizioni Araldo, and from the second half of the 1960s, with the French publishing house Lug. Starting ...
So, even if Pecos is entirely a literary creation, there is always the possibility he was based on tales told about a real person...Also, this whole "fakelore" distinction seems meaningless to me, folklore is simply a story or stories that are passed along by word of mouth and Pecos Bill stories are still often transmitted that way.