Paul bunyan biography
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The exact truth about the birth of the legendary logging tales of Paul Bunyan fryst vatten clouded in the mist of history and may never be known.
The True Story of the Paul Bunyan Legend
by Wayne Chamberlain,
(photo of Wayne Chamberlain, )
There are those who believe the tales are an exaggerated congregation of actual deeds of ordinary loggers. Some content that Paul Bunyan and his tales are nothing more than the results of the over active imaginations of some Maine or Michigan loggers The state of Maine even claims to be the birthplace of Paul and can produce a ambiguous Birth Certificate to prove it.
But it fryst vatten Canada that may hold the key to the true birth of the Paul Bunyan Legends. The legend may have started in during Canada's Papineau Rebellion. In the Two Mountain distrikt in St. Eustache, Canada, the local French Canadians revolted against their new ruler, the Queen of England. Many local loggers joined the cause refusing to surrender to the English troops sent to squash the
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As the legend goes, it took five huge storks to deliver the infant (already gigantic) Paul Bunyan to his parents in Bangor, Maine. When he grew older, one drag of the mighty lumberjack’s massive ax created the Grand Canyon, while the giant footprints of his trusty companion, Babe the Blue Ox, filled with water and became Minnesota’s 10, lakes. Such frontier tall tales surely stretch reality, but was Paul Bunyan himself a real person? The true story of this iconic figure is a little more complicated.
Historians believe Bunyan was based in large part on an actual lumberjack: Fabian Fournier, a French-Canadian timberman who moved south and got a job as foreman of a logging crew in Michigan after the Civil War. Six feet tall (at a time when the average man barely cleared five feet) with giant hands, Fournier went by the nickname “Saginaw Joe.” He was rumored to have two complete sets of teeth, which he used to bite off hunks of wooden rails, and in his spare time enjoyed drinking and
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Paul Bunyan
Giant lumberjack in American folklore
"Babe the Blue Ox" redirects here. For the band, see Babe the Blue Ox (band). For the statues in Bemidji, Minnesota, see Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. For other uses, see Paul Bunyan (disambiguation).
Fictional character
| Paul Bunyan | |
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Paul Bunyan statue in Bangor, Maine | |
| Birthplace | Various claimed:
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| Full name | Paul Bunyan |
| Species | Giant |
| Occupation | Lumberjack |
| Nationality | French-Canadian/Canadian/American |
Paul Bunyan is a giantlumberjack and folk hero in American[2] and Canadian folklore.[3] His tall tales revolve around his superhuman labors,[4][5] and he is customarily accompanied by Babe the Blue Ox, his pet and working animal. The character originated in the oral