Out of the northwoods [electronic resource] : the many lives of Paul Bunyan / by Michael Edmonds.

By: Edmonds, M. EContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Madison, Wis. : Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2009Description: xv, 282 p. : ill., mapsISBN: 9780870204715 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Bunyan, Paul (Legendary character) -- LegendsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 398.20973/02 | E LOC classification: GR105.37.P38 | E35 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Who was Paul Bunyan? -- Bunyan?s origins in fact and fiction -- Lumberjacks and their culture -- How the tales were told -- The earliest surviving versions -- The curious claims of Gene Shepard -- Out of the woods and onto the page -- Stewart and watt, the first careful collectors -- Charles brown gets caught in the middle -- Bunyan becomes a celebrity -- Competing claims to fame.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-246) and index.

Who was Paul Bunyan? -- Bunyan?s origins in fact and fiction -- Lumberjacks and their culture -- How the tales were told -- The earliest surviving versions -- The curious claims of Gene Shepard -- Out of the woods and onto the page -- Stewart and watt, the first careful collectors -- Charles brown gets caught in the middle -- Bunyan becomes a celebrity -- Competing claims to fame.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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