[DOC] [TLE] John Henry (folklore) - Wikipedia [PAR] John Henry is an African American folk hero. He is said to have worked as a "
steel-driving man"a man tasked with hammering a steel drill into rock .... 
Nelson asserts that a steam drill race at the Big Bend Tunnel would have been ... 
by John Henry as a child that steel-driving would lead to his death, the lead-up to 
and the... [DOC] [TLE] John Henry: The Steel Driving Man: From Heroes & Champions at ... [PAR] John Henry, he would spend his day's drilling holes by hitting thick steel spikes 
into ... He had a steam-powered drill and claimed it could out-drill any man. ... 
John Henry, he just pulled out two 20-pound hammers, one in each hand. ... I 
used to love this story too, until someone in my class at school added at the end: "
and... [DOC] [TLE] J! Archive - Show #3535, aired 2000-01-07 [PAR] Sticky substance into which medieval lords usually inserted their signet rings ... 
This steel drivin' man used 2 20-pound hammers in his contest with a steam drill
... [DOC] [TLE] John Henry, A Steel-Drivin' Man--And A Luddite - Forbes [PAR] Nov 20, 2013 ... Consider the legend of John Henry and his race against the newly invented 
steam hammer, a competition in driving steel to build a railroad line... [DOC] [TLE] Who Was John Henry? Celebrating the Plasticity of America's Steel ... [PAR] Sep 22, 2014 ... He keeled over with hammer in hand, dignity intact. ... In his 2006 book Steel 
Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an ... As Nelson writes, there's no 
record of steam drills being used at Big Bend, so the ... just 20 at the time of his 
supposed contest -- would have wound up whacking away for the C&O. [DOC] [TLE] John Henry - West Virginia Division of Culture and History [PAR] He was one of a thousand men and boys who worked like dogs and died like ... 
All the hundreds of his fellow workers who were killed by fever, falling rock and ... 
wasn't Polly and she didn't drive steel like a man when John Henry took sick. .... It 
is no mean feat to slam one hammer at the end of a 1/2-2 inch diameter drill,... [DOC] [TLE] Download [PAR] A steel driving man is a person who used a ten-pound hammer to drive a steel ... 
Why is there a competition between the steam drill and John Henry and why ... 
He had great pride in his work as a steel driving man. ... Tier II/Academic 
Vocabulary .... steel-driver for C&O railroad, used a 14-pound hammer to drill 10 - 
20 feet in... [DOC] [TLE] John Henry: The Ballad and the Legend - ABAA [PAR] But John Hardy was a famous African American bad man, not a steel driver, ... 
famous of these are in the Take This Hammer or Nine Pound Hammer family, and 
... the preliminaries for the big contest between John Henry and the steam drill. .... 
of how to use historical evidence to untangle and document oral tradition."20 [DOC] [TLE] John Henry: The Rebel Versions - Sites - Google [PAR] According to the legend, John Henry was in a contest against a steam drill to 
determine ... the man who oversaw the work of John Henry and his fellow steel 
drivers. ... Rebel versions 2 and 3 are open to several interpretations depending 
on ..... his captain when he goes to town to bring him back a twelve-pound 
hammer (or... [DOC] [TLE] History News Network | On the Trail of the Real John Henry [PAR] Nov 27, 2006 ... "John Henry made fourteen feet / While the steam drill only made nine." Then he 
died. "He drove so hard that he broke his heart / He laid down his hammer and 
he died. ..... As presented in "Steel Drivin' Man," the evidence that John W. ... of 
John Henry's contest with the steam drill at Big Bend Tunnel

Question: This steel drivin' man used 2 20-pound hammers in his contest with a steam drill
Answer: John Henry