Show SUPER i l I t Y a r iK I S SI II I I irr 1 I x v t tr r C I At 7 3 4 i 11 y i Aw n Y- Y I I I f All AU by bT Kb en Given from Heres Here i American Legendary Heroes by 11 Funk Frank Shay courtesy courtesT the com company pan publisher By ELMO SCOTT WATSON OH OR man many many man years Sears Americans have haye had to look to European 1 sources for a certain t type pe of ot imaginative Imaginative f native e tales tales to to the German Grimm and the Danish Andersen for their fairy tales and to the Greeks the Romans and the ScandinavIans Scandinavians Scandinavians Scan Scan- for their legends and m myths tbs It has been only within recent that have IHl discovered dis dis- v o years they covered ere that their native nathe land Is Is' rich In folk lore some of ot which they may have learned as It was passed along by byword byword byword word of ot mouth but little of oC which has heretofore heretofore heretofore hereto hereto- fore been collected and published In book form So the recent pu publication of ot Frank Shays Shay's Heres Audacity American I-AmerIcan Legendary Heroes lie lie- roes by the Macaulay company Is an nn event of Importance to those who want Made In AmerIca America Amer Amer- ica Jea myths and legends In the Introduction Mr Shay tells teUs how hov Americans Americans Amer Amer- Scans like other people create their giants In their own Image and endow them with powers powers powers pow pow- ers greater than their own We are an nn industrial Industrial In In- nation therefore our heroes are audacious auda nuda- cious Industrialists In the North orth and Northwest North orth Northwest west the hero Is Paul Bunyan the lumberjack In West VIr Virginia he lie Is 15 n again in a lumberjack but buthis his bis name Is Tony Beaver In the Southwest be he becomes a n co cowboy boy and chan changes es his name to Pecos Bill Bm In Virginia he Is a n negro a n steel steel- driving man John Henry Denry by name In the oil oilfields oilfields fields of Texas and Oklahoma he Is a rotary well well-dI well digger ger and calls himself Kemp hemp Morgan On the railroads he becomes a ml mighty ht en engineer Ineer and has won fame as Casey Jones On the old windjammers he Is still the same mighty superman superman superman super super- man but his alias Is Old Old full name nam was Alfred Altred Bull Bull- top and when he signed his Initials on the ships ship's log for his first skipper that worthy looked him over an and said A B. B S. S Able Able- Bodied By your Jour size and strength they should measure the talents of ot all other sea men As for tor his size the sailors disagree Some say that he was fourteen fathoms tall taU and others that he was jes four fathoms from the deck to the bridge e of his nose And he was fearless too One day his fellow sailors couldn't pull up the anchor An octopus was wrapped around It and was holding It fast to the bottom of the ocean Over O the side went old ng There was a n terrific struggle under ender the water and then he emerged triumphant After the anchor was safely shipped somebody asked Old what he had done to the octopus Jes tied his arms In knots knots Double CarrIck bends It'll take him a month month o o 0 Sundays Sunda's to untie em But was never satisfied He never never never nev nev- er could find n a ship big enough for tor him until finally he be signed on board the Courser Later when a new man was taken on the first thing he be saw when he lilt hit the deck was a stable full of horses for the Courser was so big that all officers and men on watch were mounted on horses and rode about their duties on them Man alive her rigging was so Immense that n no nC living man could take her In at a single glance Her Ber masts the clouds and the top sections were on hinges so they could be bent over oyer to let the sun and moon pass Her sails saUs were so 50 bI big that the builders had to take all nIl the be bodied able out In the Sahara desert to find room to sew em Kemp Morgan the Texas oil oU driller was like Old In that he too had to put hinges binges In three different places on his derrick derrickso so eo that It could be folded up to let the sun and moon go by y It was so high that It St took thirty men to man It fourteen men going up fourteen fourteen four four- teen men coming coining down a man on top and ond a TO lONY NY BEAVER EVER In n V r 0 J JOHN OHM HENRY Steel HENRY Driving q Mon Man Manman man man on dut duty duty- When he brought in his well It spouted so high the they had to put a roof root on it because St. St Peter and all nIl the angels were raisin all nIl h h l 1 a about out the oil that was through the floor of ot heaven hea It took ten days for the oil to reach the top and then It rained down for three weeks But super-man super that he was not all of Morgan's Morgans Morgans Morgan's Mor Mor- gans gan's wells brought in oil oll Occasionally he got gota a duster uster u It dr dry hole But did he abandon It as did other drillers Not Kemp Morgan 1 I He Ee knew lenew that no Kansas farmer could ever eyer dig a n apost apost post hole in his hard bottom ottom soil He lie would get his hands around his duster hole and ad pull It up four f feet feel et at a time saw it off and ship It to Kansas Ask Asle nn any Kansas farmer what he thinks of the Kemp Morgan Portable Post Holes But Dut Kemp emp Morgan wasn't the only Lone Star product of note There was Pecos Bill nIU who was lost by his p parents rents when he was a year ear old and grew up amon among the catamounts and coyotes One day he wandered into the Golden Swan saloon saloon saloon sa sa- sa- sa loon and there met a n CO cowboy oy who told him of the Joys of cow punching So Bill Bm decided to quit being a coyote coote put on human clothes It took three coats and anel two pairs of trousers pieced out with three or four blankets and pieces of ot off f cowhide to cover er him and became a cow cowboy co y No horse was strong enough to carry him so he caught a huge grizzly bear and broke it to ride And of ot course he became the greatest cowboy of them all lie could outshoot any other cowboy he could outride any other cowboy and he lie could out drink any other cowboy Once Bill BIU rode a Kansas cyclone He fie rode It through three states until they got to California and when the c cyclone saw it couldn't throw him it rained out from under him and that was what washed out the Grand canyon Bill Bm came down with a mighty thud In California and the spot where he landed Is now known as Death valley alley a big hole bole In the ground feet below sea level Another mighty Texan rexan was Strap Buckner who went to that state with the first party of settlers led by Stephen F. F Austin Strap had the pleasant pleasant pleas pleas- ant custom of knocking men down 11 with a blow between the eyes es which he would do in the most friend friendly Y y and courteous manner and with no Intention intention in in- In- In of harming them He knocked down his friends and his enemies he knocked down IndIans Indians Indians In In- and grizzly bears and wildcats and buffalo But the greatest fight In which he ever engaged was his battle with the Devil and In that fight for tor once In his life Ilfe he was defeated Since Strap Buckner was a heavy heay drinker the stories about him are something In n the nature of ot moral nile alle allegories gories ries and the De Devil n with whom he fou fought ht and by whom he lie was worsted was the Demon Rum Of or him Mr Shay says Strap Buckner Joins the great army of avengers He De will be likened to An the giant who had the el thirty men a and d whose cudgel cudge was the e. e ff U k a l BUCKNER solid trunk of an o oak k tree The Tower of ot Pisa lost ost Its perpendicularity by the weight of this giant leaning against It lt Whole books have been written about Paul Bunyan the super lumberjack so of course he gets considerable space in Heres Audacity I 1 Most of the facts about his youth and his logging opera operations lions on the Big Dig Onion rI river r In Michigan are well known But some of ot the other facts a about out his life as ns given gl by Mr Shay seem to be new For instance after he lie used Babe nabe the Blue Ox Oz Babe you ou remember measured forty axe handles and a plug of Star tobacco between the eyes yes to straighten out a n winding logging road Paul discovered that he had fourteen miles of road left over So he rolled up the fourteen miles and sold It to the city of oC Chicago for a boulevard And It t Is one of ot the shameful things about that wicked city that they call It Michigan Michigan Michi Michi- gan boulevard In honor of ot the state from which it came and not Paul Bunyan boulevard In honor honorof of ot the greatest lumberjack that ever CYEr lived Then there was the time that Jim Hilt Hill m the tho builder of the Great Northern railroad decided I to build a barbed wire fence along the right of way way to keep the tramps ot off oti his trains So he gave e a tl the e Job of building the mlle mile fence tence to Paul Bun Bunyan an He De soon found that It was going goIn to take too long to get through h with the work worl so he sent up to Montana to a man who had trained gophers for two thousand post hole ging Bing gophers Then he sent an or order er to another man who specialized In beavers and ordered five hundred of ot these animals He set the beavers to work cutting six-Inch six trees Into six-foot six lengths and set the gophers to work digging holes The gophers w were were re Innocent and when one had finished digging his hole he prepared to make It hl his lils home borne Then Paul would come along with a post In one hand hanel drag the gopher out of his hole with one hand and shove the post In There was nothing for the poor gopher to do but to begin beJin work worle on a new home The gophers got pretty mad but who cares what a gopher thinks Paul didn't and he got his fence done in plenty plent of or time As for tor Tony Beaver In West Virginia they will tell teU you that Tony who carries on his logging loggIng logging log log- ging operations on Eel river Is as ns great a lumberman lumberman lum lum- berman Lerman as Paul Bunyan But logging wasn't his only Interest he was also a n grower of the biggest watermelons In the world which were so big Ig that by whittling out the Insides cutting doors and windows and building fire places and allowing the rinds to dry out In the sun they sun they made wonderful houses As for tor the other super-Americans super one ones Is s black lack and the other Is red red- There Is John Henry the negro steel driving mn man who was vms so fast with his pound 12 hammer that he was known to wear out two handles In one shift and he always had to have a bo boy with a pan pall of col cold water standing by liy so that he could keep his hammer cool But when steam driven drills came carne on the market John Henry declared that such new Inventions inventions in In- were not necessary He TIe said he could beat a steam drill an and In a contest that was specially arran arranged ed he did beat It t But he killed himself in doing it for after the contest was over John Henry laid down his hammah an nn he died Then there is the Hercules of ot the American Indians of ot w whom om Longfellow wrote In HJ Hiawatha It was who filled fille his pipe w with lh to tobacco acco kindled It with a bolt of lightning and then emptied the live ll coals Into the sea For three days s 's he lie did this and on the fourth day there rose lose Zap tip an nn Island which Is now known as Nantucket Island off oil the coast or Massa Massa- This and many other marvels marels aid did the very verr stron strong man KwasIn he the 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