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Autore |
Edmonds M. E |
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Titolo |
Out of the northwoods : the many lives of Paul Bunyan / / Michael Edmonds |
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Madison, Wis. : , : Wisconsin Historical Society Press, , 2009 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 282 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-246) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Who was Paul Bunyan? -- Bunyan's origins in fact and fiction -- Lumberjacks and their culture -- How the tales were told -- The earliest surviving versions -- The curious claims of Gene Shepard -- Out of the woods and onto the page -- Stewart and watt, the first careful collectors -- Charles brown gets caught in the middle -- Bunyan becomes a celebrity -- Competing claims to fame. |
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Out of the Northwoods presents the culture of nineteenth-century lumberjacks in their own words. It includes eyewitness accounts of how the first Bunyan stories were shared on frigid winter nights, around logging camp stoves, in the Wisconsin pinery. It describes where the tales began, how they moved out of the forest and into print, and why publication changed them forever. An appendix includes more than 100 original Bunyan tales. |
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