Show orr chiq fmc Q gfa A k il aurer AN n xa 51 N 47 4 7 V N 0 o iq 2 21 e TOR G nut BUNYAN N 14 V r z PECOS BILL bed ddn V all by eben glien from froin ll cleres eres 1 Americ tin legendary ic iry horace by frank franic shay courtesy the macaulay company publia likera by ELMO SCOTT WATSON m OR many many years americans 7 have had bad to look to european y sources for or a certain type of cimagl IB native tales to the german ft crimm and the danish andersen L for their fairy tales and to the i greeks the romans and the scandinavians dinavi ans for their legends and myths it has been only within recent years that they have discovered 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 has heretofore been collected and published in book form so the recent publication of 0 frank shays heres audacity american legendary heroes by the macaulay company Is in an event of importance 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 audacious industrialists in the north and northwest the liero hero Is paul dunyan the lumberjack in west virginia he Is again a lumberjack but Ms big name is tony deaver in the southwest lie becomes a cowboy and changes his name to pecos bill in virginia lie Is a negro a steel driving man john henry 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 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 Storm longs S full name was alfred cull bull top Stor malong and when he signed his initials on tile the ships log for his first skipper that worthy looked him over and said A B S able bodied sailor by your size and strength they should measure the talents of all other sea ruen men As for his size the sailors disagree some say that he vias as fourteen fathoms tall and others that he was jes four fathoms from the deck to the bridge of his bis nose and he be was fearless too one day his big fellow sailors pull up the anchor an octopus was wrapped around it and was holding it fast to tile bottom of the ocean over the side went old Stor malong there was a terrific struggle under tinder the water find and then he emerged triumphant after the anchor was safely shipped somebody asked old Stor malong w hat he had done to the octopus jes tied hla his arms in knots double carrick bends take him a month 0 sundays to untie em but Stor malong was never satis satisfied fled ue he never could find a ship big enough for him un until til finally he be signed on oil board the courser later when a new man was taken on the first thing lie saw when he be lilt the deck was a stable full of horses for the courser was as so big that all officers and men on oil watch were mounted on borses and rode about their duties on them man alive her rigging wa was s so immense that no living man could take her in at a single glance her masts pente rated the clouds and th the e top sections were on hinges binges so they could be bent and moon pass her sails over to let the sun the builders had bad to take nil all were so big that the able bodied erg out in the sahara desert to find room to sew em kemp morgan the texas oil driller was like too had to put in that lie he old Stor malong hinges in three di verent places on his derrick to let the sun sua and be folded up so oo that it could that it took thirty leloon go by it was so high men anen to man it fo fourteen artlen men going up fourteen men coming down a man on top and a TO TONY my BEAVER ta ieiri virond ni a A JOHN HENRY steel man man on duty when he brought in liis his well vell it spouted so high they had bad to put a root 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 0 heaven it took ten days for the oil to reach the top and then it rained down for three ie weeks eks but superman super man that he was not all of 0 morgans wells brought in oil occasionally he got a duster a dry hole but did he abandon it as did other drillers drillars dr illers not kemp morgan lie ile knew that no kansas farmer could ever dig a post hole bole in his hard bottom soil lie ile would get his hands around his fluster 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 the only lone star product of note there was pecos bill who was lost by his parents when he be was a year old and grew up among the cat amounts and coyotes one day lie he wandered into the golden swan saloon and there met a cowboy who told him of 0 tile the joys of cow punching so bill decided to quit being a coyote put on oil human clothes it took three coats and two pairs of trousers pieced out jut with three or four blankets and pieces of cowhide to cover him and became a con covi 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 conboy of them thein all ile he could outs outshoot boot any other cowboy lie ike could outride any other co cowboy and lie could out drink any other cowboy once bill rode a kansas cyclone lie ile rode it through three states until they got to california and when ahen tile the cyclone saw it throw him it rained out from under him and that m was as ai what bat washed out the grand canyon bill came down with a mighty thud in california and the spot where he landed Is now known as death valley a big hole in the ground 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 1 austin strap had tile pleasant custom of knocking men down with ith a blow between the eyes which he would do in the most friendly and cour courteous teotis manner and with no intention of harming them ue ile knocked down his friends and his enemies he be knocked down indians and grizzly bears and wildcats and bui buffalo ralo but the greatest light in which he be ever engaged was lils his battle with the devil and la in that fight for once in his life lie he was defeated since strap buckner was a heavy drinker the stories about him film are something in the nature of moral allegories and the devil with whom he fought slid and by whom lie he was worsted was tile demon rum kum of him mr shay says strap buckner joins the great army of av engers ile he will be likened to the giant Saras cn wbk had the strength of thirty men m ell and whose cudgel was the tha bucknor sa solid trunk of an oak tree the tower of risa pisa lost its ita perpendicularity by the feht welfert of this giant leaning against it whole books have been written about paul bunyan the super lumberjack so of course he gets considerable space in heres audacity most alost of the facts about his big youth and his logging operations on oil the 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 new for instance after lie he used dabe babe the blue ax ax babe you remember measured forty axe axa handles and a pill plug of star tobacco between the tha eyes to straighten out a winding logging road paul discovered that lie he had fourteen miles of road left over so he be rolled up the fourteen miles and 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 lionor honor of the state from which it came and not paul bunyan boulevard in honor of the gilea greatest test lumberjack that ever lived then there was 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 dunyan bunyan ile he soon found that it was going to 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 liole hole alg ging gophers then he sent an order to another man who ho specialized in beavers beaver and ordered five hundred of these animals lie ire set the beavers to work cutting six inch trees into six foot lengths and set the gophers to work digging holes the gophers were viere innocent and when vohen one had finished lini shed digging his big hole bole lie he prepared to make it his home then paul would come along with a post in one hand drag the gopher out of his big 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 think sr paul and lie he got his fence done lo in plenty of time As for tony deaver beaver in west virginia they will tell you that tony who carries on his logging operations on eel river is as great a lumberman as paul bunyan but logging lils his only interest lie he was also a grower of the biggest watermelons water melons in the world isleb were vere so big that by whittling out the insides cutting doors and win windows dovis nud and building ire fire places and allowing the rinds to dry out in the sun they made wonderful houses As for the other super americans one Is black and the other Is red there Is john henry the negro steel driving man who was so fast with his 12 pound hammer that lie he was known to wear out two handles in one shift and he always had to have a boy with a pail of cold water standing by so that lie could kepp keep his hammer cool dut but when steam driven drills came on the market john henry declared that such new tangled inventions vent ions were not necessary ric he said he could beat a steam drill and in a contest that was specialty specially arranged lie did beat it but lie he killed himself in doing it for after the contest was over john henry laid down his hammah bammah an he died then there Is Kwa the hercules of the american indians IDd lans of whom longfellow wrote lu in Hin hiawatha watha it was who filled his 1113 pipe with tobacco kindled it with a bolt of lightning and then emptied tile the live coals into tile he sea for three days he did this and on the fourth day there rose up an island which Is now known as nantucket island oil off the coast of massachusetts chu this and ninny many other marvels I 1 did li the very strong man Kwa he the strongest of all mortals 0 by western union |