Show 10 V U 0 r 10 1 M I 1 AN map Z w Y A KWASIN D OLD 5 61 6 1 t PAUL n Z pr COS bad atan all by eben given from heres audacity an american 1 a legendary ll eroen by ra shay cuty courtena cut court y the lay company by ELMO SCOTT WATSON T OR many many years americans americana 1161 have hail had to look to european a sources ou r ces to fo a certain type of cimagl m native tales to the german OB grimm GAT and the danish anderson andersen ja for or their fairy tales and to the r greeks the romans and the scan dinavi ans for their legends and myths it has been only within 0 recent years that they have discovered that their native land Is rich in folk lore some of which they may have learned as aa it was passed along by word of mouth but little of which has heretofore been collected and published la in book form so 80 the recent publication of frank shays shaya heres audacity I 1 amerlean american legendary he be roes by the macaulay company Is an event of importance top to those who want made in america myths and legends in the introduction mr shay tells how americans like other people create their giants in their own image and endow them with powers greater than their own we are an industrial du nation therefore our heroes are arc audacious industrialists in the north and northwest the hero Is paul dunyan the lumberjack in west virginia he Is again a lumberjack but his name is tony deaver beaver in the southwest he becomes a cowboy and changes his name to pecos bill in virginia lie he Is a negro a steel driving man mail john henry by name in the oil fields of texas and oklahoma he Is a rotary well digger and calls calla himself kemp morgan on the railroads he becomes a mighty engineer and has won fame as casey jones on the old windjammers he Is still the same mighty superman but his alias Is old Stor malong old Storma Stor malonga longs full name was alfred bull top Stor malong and when he signed his initials on the ships log for his first skipper that worthy looked him over and said A B D 8 able bodied ballor by your size and strength they should measure the talents of all other sea men anen As tor for hla his size the sailors disagree some say that ha be was fourteen fathoms tall and others that he was jes four fathoms from the deck to the bridge of ills his nose asid and he was fearless too one day his fellow sailors pull up the anchor an octopus was wrapped around it and was holding it fast to lo the bottom of the ocean oyer over the side bide went old Stor malong there was a terrific struggle under the water and then he emerged triumphant after the anchor was wai safely shipped somebody asked old Stor malong what he had done to the octopus jes jea tied his big arms arma in knots double carrick bends take him a month ol 01 0 sundays to untie lema em but Stor malong was never satisfied ne ile sever never could find a ship big enough for him until finally he signed on board the courser later when a new man was taken an on the first thing she be saw when he be 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 alan alive tier her rigging was so immense that no living roan man could take tier her in at a single glance her masts pente peAte rated the clouds and the top sections were on hinges so they could be bent over to let the sun and moon puss pass tier her sails were so big that the builders had to take all the able bodied sall makers out in the sahara desert to find room to sew lema em kemp morgan the texas oil all driller was like old Stor malong in that ho he too had to put hinges in three different places on his derrick so eo that it could bo be folded up to let the sun sua and moon go by it was so high that it took thirty men to man it fourteen men going up fourteen men coming down a roan man on top and a av VER 7 vir ai mid BUCKLER V Y VI jonta henry HEMRY steel stee drivins man man on duty when he brought in his well it spouted so high they had to put a root roof on it because st peter and all the angels were raisin all h 1 I about the oil that was sho shoot otin ln through the floor of heaven it took ten days for the oil to reach the top and then it rained down for three weeks but superman super man that he was not all os of morgans wells brought in oil occasionally he got a duster a dry hole but did lie he abandon it as did other drillers drillars dr illers not kemp morgan I 1 ire he know knew that no kansas farmer could ever dig a post hole in his hard bottom soil ile he would get his hands around ills his duster hole and pull it up tour four feet at a time saw it off and ship it to kansas ask any kansas farmer what he thinks of the kemp morgan portable post holes but kemp morgan tile the only lone star product of note there was pecos bill who was lost by his parents when he was a year old and grew up among the catamounts amounts cat and coyotes one day he wandered into the golden swan saloon and there met a cowboy who told lihn him of the joys of cow punching so bill decided to quit being a coyote put on human clothes it took three coats and two pairs of trousers pieced out with three or tour four blankets and pieces of cowhide to cover him and became a cowboy con boy no horse was strong enough to carry him so he caught a huge grizzly bear and broke it to ride and of course he be became the greatest cowboy of them all ile he could outshoot any other cowboy he could outride any other cowboy and he be could out cut drink any other cowboy once bill rode a kansas cyclone lie ile rode it through three states until they got to california and when the cyclone saw it throw him blin it rained out from under him and that was what washed out the grand canyon bill came down with a mighty thud in california and the spot where lie ha landed Is now known as death valley a big hole bole in the ground SOO feet below sea level another mighty texan was strap buckner who went to that state with the first party of settlers led by stephen F austin strap had the pleasant custom of knocking men down with a blow between the eyes which he would do in the most friendly and courteous manner and with no intention of harming them ile he knocked down his friends and his enemies he knocked down indians and grizzly bears and wildcats and buffalo but the greatest fight in which lie he ever engaged was his battle with the devil and in that light fight for once in his life he was defeated since strop strap buckner was a heavy drinker the stories about him are something in the nature of moral allegories and the devil with whom he fought and by whom he was worsted was waa the demon num of him mr air shay says strap buckner joins the great army of av engers ile he will be likened to the giant who bad the strong strength th ot of thirty men and whose cudgel was the solid trunk of an oak tree the tower of 0 als lost its perpendicularity by the weight ot of giant leaning against it whole books have been written about paul bunyan banyan the super lumberjack so of course ho h gets considerable space la in heres audacity 11 I 1 most of the facts about his youth and his logg logging ing operations on the nig big onion river in michigan are well known but some of the other facts about his life as given by mr shay seem to be ba new for instance after he ha used babe the blue ox babe you remember measured forty axe abo handles and a plug of star tobacco between the eyes to straighten out a winding logging road paul discovered that he had bad fourteen miles of road left over so he rolled up the fourteen four teea miles and sold it to the city of chicago for a boulevard inq and it is one of the shameful things about that wicked city that they call it michigan boulevard in tion honorof orlof the state from which it came and not paul bunyan boulevard in honor of the greatest lumberjack that ever lived I 1 then there was wag the time that jim hill the builder of the great northern railroad decided to build a barbed wire fence along the right of way to keep the tramps off his trains so he gave the job of building the 1800 mile fence to paul bunyan ile he soon found that it was going to take too long to got get through with the work so he be sent up to montana to a man who had trained gophers for two thousand post hole dig gang gophers then ho he sent an order to another man who specialized in beavers and ordered five hundred of these animals ile he set the beavers to work cutting six inch trees into six foot lengths and set the gophers to work digging holes the gophers were innocent and when one had finished digging his hole he prepared to make it hla his home then paul would come along with a post in one hand 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 work on a new home the gophers got pretty mad but who cares what a gopher thinks paul and he be got his fence done in plenty of time As for tony deaver beaver in west virginia they will tell you that tony who carries on his logging ging opera operations 1 t ions on eel river Is its as great a lumberman n as 1 paul bunyan banyan but logging his only interest he was also a grower of the biggest watermelons water melons in the world which were so big that by whittling out the insides Ins ldes cutting 9 doors and windows aal an building ore fire places an and d allowing the rinds to dry out la in the sun they the made wonderful houses As aa for the other super americans one to Is black and the other Is red there Is john henry the negro steel arlvin driving man who was waa so fast with his 12 pound hii hammer r er that he was known to wear out two handles in one shift and he always had to have a boy with a pall of cold water standing by so that he could keep ills his hammer cool but when steam driven drills came cama on the market johr john henry declared that such new tangled inventions vent ions were not necessary ile he said he could beat a steam drill and in a contest that was spec Bp lally arranged lie he did beat it but he killed himself in ili doing it for after the contest was over john henry laid down his hammah bammah an he died then there Is the hercules of the american indians of whom longfellow wrote in hiawatha it was who filled his pipe with tobacco kindled it with a bolt of lightning and then emptied the live coals into the sea for three days lie did this sand and on the fourth day there rose up an island which Is now known ng an nantucket island off the coast or massachusetts chu this and many other marvels did aid the very strong man Kwa he the strongest of all mortals Q by western 4 |