| Paul Bunyan: How a Terrible Timber Feller Became a Legend |  | Author: Laurence D. Rogers
Publisher: Historical Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1954052
Format: Import
Media: Hardcover
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 11.3 x 9 x 1
ISBN: 0963536907
Dewey Decimal Number: 634.98092
EAN: 9780963536907
ASIN: 0963536907
Publication Date: 1993
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Condition: Hardcover, Former library book with the usual markings and stickers, otherwise clean inside and out
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Book Description
This is an educational book documenting early lumbering folklore and literary origins of the legend of Paul Bunyan. Includes the first Bunyan poem, drawings and cartoons of the world's most well known heroic figure. Ties to H.L. Mencken and several other authors are described. Explains links of legend to Maine, Michigan,Wisconsin, Minnesota and California. Interesting reading for both later elementary students and History buffs.
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Paul Bunyan based in reality and this book traces the roots! March 26, 1999
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I you think Paul Bunyan is a cartoon character you're in for a surprise. This author has tracked the origin of the man, the name and the legend to a single lumberjack named Fabian Joseph Fournier! (an 1875 lumberjack logging in the upper reaches of (lower) Michigan) The author claims (and pretty much convinces) any reader that he was the inspiration for Bunyan. However, Fournier was no "all American" but a drunkard and brawler who supposedly had a double row of molars.These teeth left their marks on the wood bar rails in saloons and also on his enemies. The murder of this infamous lumberjack is a matter of record in the files of the small county (Bay) in Michigan. He was dealt a blow to the head in 1875 and the legal proceedings against the perpetrator gave rise to the Paul Bunyan myth. Rogers enables a reader to see how easily exaggeration came to the lumbermen in that era. It is a very worthwhile and entertaining American history lesson and would be a great Social Studies supplement for high school students! This man Fournier/Bunyan is America's most famous "tree feller". A fun book, lots of old pictures!
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