Show PR I 1 IL 44 f 01 4 01 4 4 4 OLD 4 ALONG L ax PAUL BUNYAH 0 A ka 41 A pr COS bad man X alt by eben gillen from BEAVER anda ityl legendary heroes ll by lank shay courtesy the macaulay company publishers by ELMO SCOTT WATSON OR olt many many years americans have bad had to look to european soirees for a certain type of image native tales to the german grimm and the danish andersen for their airy fairy tales and to the th greeks the komans romans and the scan for their legends and m mahs it has been only within recent bears ears that they have dis covered that their native land Is rich in folk lore some of which they may have learned as it was passed along by word of mouth but little of which abich has hereto fore ore been collected and published in book form so the recent publication of frank shays heres audacity 1 american Leger legendary dary he ile roes by the macaulay company Is nn tin event of I 1 importance mp ortance to those who mho want mude made in amer lea myths and legends lo 10 the introduction sir mr shaf tells how amer leans like other people create their giants in their own image and endow them with pow ers era greater than their own wo we are an in da nation therefore our heroes are auda alt cabus s industrialists in the north and north vest iest the hero Is paul bunyan the lumberjack in la NN est virginia he Is again a lumberjack but ills name Is tony beaver in the southwest he becomes a cowboy and changes his name to pecos bill in enla he Is a negro a steel driving man john glenry by name in the oil fields of texas and oklahoma he Is a rotary well digger and calls himself kemp morgan on the railroads he becomes a mighty engineer end and has won mon fame as casey jones on the old wind windjammer windjammers Jammen he Is still the same mighty super man but bis his alias allas Is I 1 old Stor malong old Storma Stor malong longs s full name was alfred bull top Stor malong and when he signed his initials iu till alic bluis a avs lag fur lia his first bj upper tuat worthy orthy looked tooled him over oer and said A B S able bodied sailor by boar size and strength they should measure the talents of all other sea men As for his size the sailors disagree some say that he was fourteen fathoms tall and others that lie was jes four fathoms from the deck to the bridge of his nose and he be was wits fearless too one day bis his fellow sailors pull up the anchor an octopus was wrapped around it and waa was holding it fast to the bottom of the ocean her the side went old Stor malong there was a terrific struggle under the water and then he emerged triumphant after the anchor was safely shipped somebody asked old Stor malong what he had done to the octopus jes tied his arms in knots double carrick bends take him a month 0 sundays to untie cm em but Stor Sto malong was never satisfied he lie nev cr er could find a ship big enough for him until finally he signed on board the courser later when a new man was taken on the first thing he lie saw when he be hit bit the deck was a stable f full U 11 of horses for the courser was mas so big that all 11 officers and men on watch match were mounted 0 on n horses and rode about their duties on them man alle her rigging was so immense that no do living man could take ber ler in ut a single glance her ifer masts pente rated tte clouds and the top sections were on hinges so they could be bent over to let the eun sun and moon pass her sails were ere so big that the builders had bad to take all the able bodied gall makers out in the sahara desert to find room to sew cm em kemp morgan the texas oil driller was like old Stor malong in that he too had to put hinges in three different places on his derrick so that it could be folded up to let the sun and moon go by it was wits so hah that it took thirty men to man it fourteen men going up four teen men coming down a man on top and a 1 I 1 44 jovin JoHH HEWY stee steel driving man man on duty 11 hen 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 about the oil that was sho otin through the floor of heaven it took ten days for the oil to reach the top and then it rained down tor for tiree weeks but super superman man that he m was as not all of mor gana gans wells mells brought la in oil occasionally he got a duster a dry hole but did he abandon it as did other dr illers not kemp morgan I 1 I 1 he ile knew K ansas farmer could ever dig a post hole la in his bis bard hard bottom soil he ile would mould get his hands around bis his duster hole and pull it up 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 gasn wasn t the only lone star product of note there was pecos bill who was mas lost by his parents when he be was a year old and grew grev up among the catamounts and coyotes OZO d 9 h 1 7 an t nt 0 tho f 0 owna 94 S 3 UJ Y u V ku JV Z J loon and there met a cowboy who told him of the joys of cow punching so bill decided to quit being a coyote put on hurran clothes it took three coats and two pairs of trousers pieced out with three or four blankets and pieces of cowhide to cover him and became a chuboy v 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 became the greatest cowboy of them all lie ile could outshoot any other cowboy he could outride any other cowboy and he could out drink any other cowboy once bill rode a kansas cyclone he ile rode it through three states until they got to california and when the cyclone sa r it throw him it rained out from under him and that a what washed out the grand canyon bill came down with a mighty thud in california and the spot where he landed la Is now known as death valley a big bole hole in the ground SW feet below sea level another mighty texan was strap buckner who went ment to that state with the first party of settlers led by stephen F austin strap had the pleas ant custom of knocking men down with a blow between the ees which he be would do in the most friendly and courteous manner and with no do in of farming arming i them he ile knocked down domn his friends and his enemies he knocked down in deans and grizzly bears and mild wildcats cats and buffalo but the greatest fight in which he ever engaged was his battle with the deth an ani in that fight for once in his life he was defeated since strap buckner was mas a heavy drinker the stories about him are something in the nature of moral allegories gories and the devil with whom he foupht and by whom he was worsted was the demon ram of him mr ur shay says strap buckner joins the great army of av engers he ile aill be likened to the giant who had bad the strength of thirty mea men and whose cudgel was the solid trunk of an sin oak tree the tower of pisa lost its perpendicularity by the weight of this giant leaning against it bhole bools books have been written about paul bunyan the super lumberjack so of course he gets considerable emble spice space in heres audacity I 1 most of ile facts about his youth and bs logging operations on the big onion river I 1 in t 1 michigan are well known but some of the 0 other ther facts about aboul his life as given by mr shay seem to be new for instance after he used babe the blue oi ox babe you remember measured forty axe handles and a plug of star tobacco between the ies to straighten out a winding logging road paul discovered that he had fourteen miles of road left ovar so be he rolled up the fourteen miles and suld sold it to the city of chicago for a boulevard and it is one of the shameful things about that wicked city that they call it michigan boulevard in honor of the state from w which it came and not paul bunyan banyan boulevard in honor of the greatest lumberjack that ever lived I 1 then there aas the time that jim hill the builder of the great northern athern railroad decided to build a barbed mire ft ire fence along the right of way to leep keep the crimps oil off his trains so he le save gave the job of building the 1800 mile fence to paul bunyan bunyar he ile soon found that it was going to tale take too long to get through with the work so he sent up to montana to a man who had trained gophers for two thousand post ho hole ae dl dig ging gophers then he sent an order to naother r man mho specialized in beavers and ordred fite hundred of these animals he ile set the beavers to work cutting six inch trees into six foot lengths and sei set the gophers to work digging holes the gophers were innocent and athen hen one had finished dl digging ging his hole he prepared to make it his home then paul would come along with a post in one hand drag the gopher out of his hole with ith one band and shove the post in there was nothing for the poor gopher to do but lo 10 begin work on a new home the gophers got pretty mad but who cares what a gopher thinks paul and he got his fence done in plenty of time As for tony beaver la in west N virginia thary will tell you that tony who carries on his legging ging operations on eel river Is as great a lumberman as paul bunyan but logging his only interest he be was also a grower of tha tho biggest watermelons in the world which were so big that by whittling out the insides ins ldes cutting doors and windows and building fire places and lind allowing the rinds to dry out in the sun they made wonderful houses As for the other super americans one Is to black and the other Is red there Is john glenry the negro steel driving man abo ho was eo so fast with bis his 12 pound hammer that he was down to wear ort ott two handles in one shift and he always had to liae bae a boy with a pall of cold waler water standing by so that he could keep his hammer cool but when steam driven drills came on the market john henry declared that such new tangled inventions vent ions lons were not tot necessary 11 e s said ad I 1 he could beat a drill and in a contest that was specially arranged he did beat it but he killed himself in doing it for after the contest was over john henry laid down his ills bammah an he died then there Is Kwa the hercules of the american indians of whom longfellow wrote la in Il hiawatha lawatha it was who filled his pipe with tobacco kindled it with a bolt of lightning and then emptied the live coals into the sa for three days he did this and on the fourth day there rose rosc up an island which Is now known as Isan island off the coast of massachusetts chu this and many other marvels did the very strong nan mn Kwa be he the stron cst of all mortals 1 fi A by western newspaper ebion |