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Legends of Paul Bunyan Harold W. Felton, editor Foreword by James Stevens Illustrated by Richard Bennett Table of Contents PRESS: First Crack Podcast		$19.95 paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5460-4
The collected lore of Minnesota’s favorite lumberjack hero. Paul Bunyan is a true American folk character, created in logging camp bunkhouses by men who spun exaggerated stories that combined hard work and fantasy. While the origins of Paul Bunyan and his sidekick Babe the Blue Ox are hazy, many storytellers have over the years contributed their own takes to produce an existing body of work—a true American legend—that matches the size of the lumberjack himself. Collected in colorful and engaging sections such as “Paul the Man,” “Paul and the Animal Kingdom,” and “The Wonderful Big Blue Ox, Babe,” Legends of Paul Bunyan features more than thirty authors celebrating the largest lumberman, including stories by such Bunyan luminaries as James Stevens and W. B. Laughead, as well as such literary icons as Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg. “It’s great entertainment.” —Rochester Post-Bulletin “James Steven’s foreword to this volume is an engaging piece of writing, and he affirms that there is an actual basis for stories about Paul Bunyan in the folklore of lumberjacks. . . . There is a fine literary quality to many of the stories and poems about Bunyan, especially those written by Stevens, Carl Sandburg, and Robert Frost. The stories also are interesting reworkings of motifs, tale types, and themes that are central to oral literature, and it’s intriguing to read ways in which the lumberman is cast as an epic, even mythic, hero as well as a renowned figure within ballads and poetry.” —Journal of Folklore Research Harold W. Felton (1902–1991) was the author and editor of numerous books of folklore for young readers. 448 pages | 53 b&w illustrations | 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 | 2008 Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book Series TABLE OF CONTENTS An Old Logger’s Foreword     James Stevens                                                                                                     Introduction     Harold W. Felton                                                                                                                                        The Spirit of Paul Bunyan Is in America                                                                                         Paul, the Baby and the Boy                                   Paul, the Man                                                                                                                       Food and the Kitchen                                                                                    Paul’s Fellow Workers, Pals and Friends                                                                   Paul’s Adventures with Contemporary Heroes                             Paul and the Animal Kingdom                                                                     Paul’s Great Inventions                                                                                                    Paul’s Vegetables                                   Paul Made Geography               Paul Had a Way with Water                                                                                        Paul Made and Met the Weather                                                                                        The Spirit of Paul Bunyan Will Stay in America                                                                                                        Bibliography                                                                                                                                                                  Acknowledgments                                                                                                                                                                   List of Authors, Publications, and Selections                                                                                                            Publication History

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