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R r 7 1 PEGOS BILL BILL- y iv V 1 All AU by DT bEb Eben Eb n CI Gh en CI en n. n from tram un Heres rell An Audacity Am American Legendary HerotH b by Frank FVank Shay court courtesy the con company By ELMO SCOTT T WATSON Oil on man many many years Americans have hale had to look to to European sources for a certain t type pe of Imaginative F native tales tales to to the thc German German Grimm and the Danish Andersen for their fairy tales and to the Greeks the Romans nomans and the thc Scandinavians Scan Scan- Ians dina for their legends and myths It has been only within recent years that the they have ha rave discovered discovered dis- dis covered ered that ilia t their native land is Is' rich In folk lore some of which they ma may have Lave learned as it was passed along by word of ot mouth but hut little of which has heretofore heretofore hereto hereto- fore been collected and r I published in book form So the recent publication of Frank Shays Shay's Heres Audacity American i-American Legendary He lIe- roes by the Macaulay company Is an event ent of Importance to those who want tinge Made in America Amer Amer- ica m myths and legends In the Ue introduction air Mr Shay tells how Low Amer Amer- like other people create their giants in their own Image and endow them with powers powers pow pow- ers greater eater than their own own We Ve are an in In- Industrial nation therefore our heroes are auda auda- audacIous audacious cious clous industrialists In the North N rth and North orth Northwest west the hero is Paul nun Bunyan an the lumberjack In West Vest Virginia lie he Is again a lumberjack but his name is Ton Tony Beaver In the Southwest he be becomes a cowboy and changes chanes his name to Pecos Bill Hlll In Virginia Virgnia he is a negro a steel- steel driving man John Henry by name In the oil fields of Texas and Oklahoma he Is a rotary well well digger digger and calls himself Kemp Morgan On the railroads he becomes a mighty engineer and has won aon fame as Casey Jones On the old windjammers he Is still the same ml mighty superman superman super super- man but his alias aUas is Old Old full name was ryas Alfred Bull Bull- top and when he signed his initials on the ships ship's lpg log for his first skipper that worthy looked him over and said A uA B B. B S. S Able Able- Bodied Sailor By your jour our size and strength they should measure the talents of all other sea men As for tor his ifs size the sailors disagree Some say suy that he was fourteen fathoms tall and others that he ire was ryas Jos jes four fathoms from the deck to the bridge of his nose And he was vms t as 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 bott bottom m of ot the ocean Over the side tt went ent old There was a terrific struggle under the water and then he emerged After the anchor was safely shipped somebody asked Old what he had done to the octopus des Jes tied his arms in knots Double Carrick bends It'll take him a month o 0 o Sundays to untie em But was never satisfied He lie net nev er could find a ship strip big enough for tor him until finally he signed on board the Courser Later Luter when khen a new man was vas taken on the first thing 1 lie Le saw when he hit the deck was ryas a stable stahle full full of horses for the Courser was so big bg that all officers and men on watch were mounted on Horses and rode rude about their duties on them Man Sian alive her ber rigging was so immense that no living man could take her tier in at a single glance Her masts pent crated the rife clouds and the top sections were on hinges so they could be pe bent hent over o to let the sun and moon pass Her lier sails were so big that the builders Lad had to tape tale all aU the able able bodi bodied able d out in the Sahara desert to find room to sew sets em Kemp hemp Morgan the Texas oil driller was like Old in that he ire too had Irad to put hinges in three different places on his tits derrick derrickso so that it could be folded up to let the sun and moon go by It was so high that It took thirty men to man it fourteen men roen going up fourteen fourteen four tour teen men coming down clown a man on top and a fK L V lONY 1 NY BEAVER ih vir 9 foie r 1 t 1 yh 7 3 t mod g a f Z A J i r f S a t k t Fl y Sk i it r S. S 4 C i d a ar r 1 d r a I JOHN oNN N HENRY HENRY- Steel ENRY-Steel Steel Driving Man Manman Manman man roan on an dut duty Vilen When he be brought In his bis well it spouted so high the they had to put a roof on it because St. St Peter and all the angels were raisin all nil h h l 1 about the oil that was through the floor of heaven hea It took tool ten da days s 's for the oil to r reach ach the top and then it rained down for three weeks But super man that he lie tt was as not all nil of Morgan's Morgans Morgans Morgan's Mor Mor- gans gan's wells brought In Jn oil Occasionally he got gota a duster a dry hole But Lut did he abandon it as DS did other drillers Not Kemp Morgan an l lie He knew that no Kansas hansas farmer could ever dig a apost apost apost post hole in his hard hurd bottom soil He lie would get his hands around his duster cluster hole and pull it up four feet at a time saw saty It off and ship strip It to Kansas hansas Ask an any i Kansas ansas farmer what he throbs thIns of the Kemp Morgan organ Portable Post Holes But nut Kemp hemp Morgan j wasn't the only Lone Star product of oP note There was ryas Pecos Bill hill who tt was as lost by his parents when he lie was a year old and grew up among the catamounts and co coyotes otes One da day he wandered Into the Golden S Swan an saloon saloon saloon sa sa- loon and there met a U cowboy who told tod him of ut the tre Joys of cott cow So mil Bill decided to quit being a n coyote put on nn human clothes it took three coats and two o pairs of trousers pieced out with three or four blankets and pieces of cowhide to cot cover er him and became a cowboy No horse was ryas strong enough to carry him so he caught a huge grizzly bear and broke it to ride And of course he lie became the greatest cowboy of them all all no ne could outshoot any other cowboy he ire could outride any other cott cowboy lroy and he could out out drink drink any other cowboy Once Bill rode a Kansas c cyclone He Ile rode it through three states until they got gut to California and when the c cyclone clone saw saty it couldn't throw him It rained out from fran under him Jim and that was teas what washed out the Grand can carryon canyon on Dill Bill came down tt with ith a mighty thud In to California and the spot where he landed is now known as Death valley a big bib hole In the ground feet below helow sea level t Another mighty might Texan was ryas Strap Buchner who went to that state with the first party of settlers led by Stephen I F. F Austin Strap had the pleasant pleasant pleasant pleas pleas- ant custom of oP knocking men down clown with a hI blow ow between the eyes which he would do in the most friendly and courteous manner and with no Intention in In- fn- fn of harming them He lIe knocked down his iris friends and antl his rIs enemies he knocked down Indians In In- and grizzly hears bears rears and wildcats and buffalo But the greatest fight in which he ever ever- en engaged aged was his Iris battle with the Devil and in that tight fight for lor once In his life UCe he was defeated Since Strap Buckner was a heavy beaus drinker the stories about him nr are something in Ia the nature of moral allegories alle alle- gories and the Devil with whom he fou fought b ht and by whom he was worsted was the Demon Hum Of or him Lim Mr Sha Shay Y sa says Y s St Strap rap Buckner Joins the great army of oP avengers He will be likened to the tLe giant glant who had the strength of ot thirty men and whose cudgel was teas the 5 STRAP V T t ER R solid s-olid trunk of an oak tree The Tower of Pisa lost Its perpendicularity by the weight of thIs thia giant leaning against it it Whole books have been written about Paul nun Bunyan nn the super lumberjack so of course ho gets pets considerable space In Heres Audacity 1 l lhost Most host of the facts about his youth and his logging operations on the Big Onion river in Michigan are arc well known But nut some of the tine other facts about his iris life as given giten b by Mr lir r. r Shay Stray seem scent to be benett new nett For hoc instance after he used Babe Labe the Blue Ox Babe you jou remember measured fort forty axa handles and a plug of Star tobacco bettt between een thee the eyes ayes e es to straighten out n a winding logging road Paul discovered disco that he ha had fourteen miles of road left over oyer So he rolled up the fourteen miles and sold It to the city of Chicago for a boulevard And Ind It is one of the shameful things about that wicked city that they call It Michi liichi- Michigan gan boulevard In honor of oC the state from which It came and not Paul Bunyan Runyan boulevard In honor honorof of the greatest lumberjack that ever lived I 1 Th Then n there was the time that Jim Hill tho the builder of the Great Northern railroad decided to build a barbed a wire Ire fence along the rife right right-of- way to keep the tramps ofT olY his trains So he gave the job of hull building ding the 1800 1500 mile mile fence to Paul Bunyan He ne soon found that It t was ryas going to take tako too long to get through with the work so he lie sent up to Montana to a man who had trained gophers for two o thousand post post hole dig Bing Ing gophers Then he ile sent an order to another man who specialized In beavers ers and ordered five hundred of these animals He lIe set the heavers ers to work cuttin cutting six inch Inch trees into six foot lengths and set the gophers to work dig digging holes The gophers were innocent and when one had finished digging his hole he prepared to make male It his home Then rhen Paul would come along ulong tt with a post in n one hand drag the gopher II out of his hole with one hand and shove sho the post in fn There was nothing for the poor gopher to io do but to begin bein work on a n new home The gophers got gat pretty mad but who cares what a n gopher thinks Paul didn't and he got his fence done In plenty of ot time lime I As for Tony Beaver cr In West Virginia they will tell you OU that ron Tony who carries on his logging logging lobBing log lob ging Bing operations on Eel river ricer is as ns great a lumberman lumberman lum lum- lumberman berman as Paul nun Bunyan an nut But logging wasn't his only Interest he was teas also a grott grower cr of the biggest watermelons in the tt world orid which were so big that by whittling out the Insides cutting doors and windows and building fire places and allowing the rinds to dry out oat in Jn the sun they made wonderful houses I As for the other super Americans super one Is black block and the other is red rell There Is lobo John Henry the negro steel driving man who teho was ryas so co fast with his 1 pound 12 pound hammer that he was ryas known to wear out two rivo handles in one shirt shift and he alwa always s 's hud had to have hove a boy with a n pall pail of cold water standing by so that he could keep his hammer cool coot But nut when hen steam driven drills s came carne on the market John Henry declared that such new nett f angled Inventions In- In in were not necessary He ne said he Ire co could Id beat heat steam drill and in a a contest that was specially arranged he did girl beat It But he killed himself In it for after doing the contest was over John Henry laid down Iris Ills hammah an he died Then hen there is the Hercules of the American Indians of oP whom Longfellow wrote In Jn Hiawatha It was who filled his pipe with tobacco kindled it with n a bolt of lightning and then emp emptied led the live coals Into the tiro sea For three day daft 1 he tic did this and on the fourth day ay there rose roso up an nn island which Is now known mown as Nantucket island off oft the coast of Massa Massa- This Ibis and many ninny other marvels did dd the very stron strong man he the life strongest of ot all aU mortals 1 p by Western Newspaper Union |