Out of the northwoods
Subtitle: the many lives of Paul Bunyan
By: by Michael Edmonds.
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Madison, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780870204371
Subjects: Bunyan, Paul (Legendary character) -- Legends
Genres: Legends.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Who was Paul Bunyan?; title: Bunyan?s origins in fact and fiction; title: Lumberjacks and their culture; title: How the tales were told; title: The earliest surviving versions; title: The curious claims of Gene Shepard; title: Out of the woods and onto the page; title: Stewart and watt, the first careful collectors; title: Charles brown gets caught in the middle; title: Bunyan becomes a celebrity; title: Competing claims to fame.