02245oam 2200493 a 450 991109932690332120240417234206.00-87020-471-8(CKB)2670000000386465(EBL)3417326(SSID)ssj0000916154(PQKBManifestationID)11485633(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000916154(PQKBWorkID)10874936(PQKB)10913791(MiAaPQ)EBC3417326(Au-PeEL)EBL3417326(CaPaEBR)ebr10723097(OCoLC)809669864(EXLCZ)99267000000038646520090211d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierOut of the northwoods the many lives of Paul Bunyan /Michael Edmonds1st ed.Madison, Wis. :Wisconsin Historical Society Press,2009.1 online resource (xv, 282 pages) illustrations, maps0-87020-437-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-246) and index.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.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.398.20973/02EEdmonds M. E912628MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911099326903321Out of the northwoods4763264UNINA