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Stories of his remarkable prowess constitute a mighty legend of the forests that is told in ranger cabins and bunk houses from Maine to Oregon. Many a camper from the city has listened in open-mouthed wonder to tales of Paul's exploits, only to realize in a flash of light that it is all fiction.
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Babe the Blue Ox was a great help around Paul Bunyan’s logging camp. He could pull anything that had two ends, so Paul often used him to straighten out the pesky, twisted logging roads.
Here's a tall tale about Paul Bunyan, a hero of North America’s lumberjacks. Today we tell a traditional American story called a “tall tale.” A tall tale is a story about a person who is...
Jul 12, 2023 · There are countless stories about the many adventures of Paul Bunyan and his blue ox, but was Paul Bunyan real or based on a real lumberjack? Why The Tall Tales? Stories about Paul Bunyan come from fireside stories and bunkhouse tales from logging camps in the US and Canada.
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The Tall Tale of Paul Bunyan. Paul Bunyan was a lumberjack. He wore a red and black checkered shirt and a checkered logging cap to match, and his blue jeans were held up with bright yellow suspenders. On his feet he wore heavy work boots, and in his hand he always carried an axe.
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Tall Tales. The Legend of Paul Bunyan's Bobber! A long, long time ago, Paul and Babe were vacationing near Pequot Lakes after sending their last load of logs down the Mississippi.
In the 1995 Disney film Tall Tale, Paul Bunyan is played by Oliver Platt. Contrary to the usual image of Bunyan's gigantism, Platt's Paul is depicted as a man of average height, but compensated with a "larger than life" personality consistent with the film's "over the top" nature.
