Library Guides: Wisconsin Folklore: Tall Tales

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Paul Bunyan, American Hercules : Wisconsin tall tales of the prince of American lumberjacks and his logging crews, for story telling at the campfire and fireside / Charles E. Brown. by Charles E. Brown
Publication Date: 1937
"The hero of the American lumberjacks is Paul Bunyan and tales of his boyhood, his great strength and wonderful exploits are, or formerly were, told by the fires of bunkhouses in the logging camps from Wisconsin to Maine, and from Minnesota to Oregon,
British Columbia and California. His cousin, Tony Beaver, cut tall timber in the forests of the South,
and his blood brother, Pecos Bill, reigned over the cow camps and cattle trails from Texas to beyond the Canada boundary." -From the Text
Out of the Northwoods by Michael Edmonds
ISBN: 0870204718
Publication Date: 2010-09-24
This book explains how the famous tales about Bunyan escaped the forest to become America’s best-known folk hero between 1885 and 1960.

Paul Bunyan
Paul Bunyan is a giant lumberjack and folk hero in American and Canadian folklore.
Paul Bunyan America's Best-Known Folk Hero
In 1922 Charles E. Brown, who collected tales about Bunyan directly from Wisconsin loggers, summarized him this way: "All lumberjacks believe, or pretend to believe, that he really lived and was the pioneer in the lumber country.