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The legend says that the drill was only able to drill nine feet. John Henry beat the steam drill and later died of exhaustion. The Great Bend Tunnel was completed on September 12, 1872, and remained in service until 1974. The tunnel and the man have been cemented into the annals of time through The Ballad of John Henry. The song tells of a boy ...
Nov 23, 2006 · A real John Henry's history. In almost 200 folk songs, John Henry drives steel into the Allegheny Mountains for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad in a race against a steam drill: “John Henry, O ...
Nov 13, 2019 · John Henry. John Henry was a legendary steel driving man, whose life is the basis for one of the world’s best-known folk tales. His fame rests on a single epic moment when he raced the steam drill during the building of a West Virginia railroad tunnel. That moment has captured the imagination of balladeers and storytellers for the last ...
v. t. e. John Henry Holliday (August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887), better known as Doc Holliday, was a dentist and later a gambler, gunfighter, and a close friend and associate of lawman Wyatt Earp. Holliday is best known for his role in the events surrounding and his participation in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.
What about Johnny Appleseed, the outdoorsman who is said to have traveled on foot across the United States planting apple trees? He was a real person, actually, although some aspects of his life were mythologized over time. John Chapman was born in Massachusetts in 1774. Little is known about his early life except that his mother died when he ...
Dec 9, 2020 · According to the historian Carlene Hempel , John Henry, the best and fastest of the thousand workers on the C&O Railway, took up two hammers in an attempt to prove the enduring value of the human labor of himself and his fellow steel drivers. In a steel-driving race against the machine, it is said that Henry managed to drill 14 feet into the ...
Jan 15, 1999 · A professor at the College of William and Mary believes that he has proof that the legendary folk hero John Henry was a real person. Scott R. Nelson, an assistant professor of American history ...