Maine.When he grew older,one drag of the mighty huge axe created the Grand Canyon by the Colorado River in northwestern Arizona,while the giant footprints of his trusty companion,Babe the Blue Ox,filled with water and became Minnesota's 10,000lakes.But was Paul Bunyan hims...
The story of Paul Bunyan, the giant lumberjack, is one of the most enduring tall tales in North America. The folktale is a favorite in children's classrooms and is immortalized in cartoons and tourist attractions all over the United States. But was this based on a real person? Before we ...
“I’ve never seen Paul Bunyan but I know who the fuck he is,” Chappelle said. “You gotta make ’em talk about you. You gotta make ’em experience you. I’m saying this to all you young people out here who look up to Kweli and maybe even me unwisely. “Happen in real life...
John Bunyan—The Riches of Bunyan The Leaven. "Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened."--MATT. xiii. 33. In the mustard-seed we saw the kingdom growing ...
Paul Bunyan, the gigantic lumberjack? Fiction. Daniel Boone, the frontier explorer? Real. John Henry, the steel driver? Not real, but he may have been based on a real person or multiple people whose names and identities have disappeared into legend. What about Johnny Appleseed, the ...