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"The Frozen Logger" is an American folk song, written by James Stevens. [1] It is a tall tale song which makes reference to a logger being identifiable by the habit of stirring coffee with his thumb.
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.
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.
American mythology is the body of traditional stories pertaining to America's most legendary stories and folktale, dating back to the late 1700s when the first colonists settled.
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]
Like Paul Bunyan, he became the subject of many similar tall tales. Mufferaw is sometimes enlisted as a defender of oppressed French-Canadian loggers [1] in the days that their bosses were English-Canadians and their rivals at work were Irish-Canadian criminals. In one story, Big Joe was in a Montreal bar, and a British army major named Jones ...
Paul Bunyan is the subject of a story featured in the "Big Boys Don't Cry" episode of The Puzzle Place, in which, when Babe is so ill that Paul can't help him, he cries, eventually making the Great Salt Lake. A statue of Paul Bunyan along with Babe appears in the level Roadside Destruction from the 2009 video game Tornado Outbreak.
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 ...