Paul Bunyan: How a Terrible Timber Feller Became a Legend

By D. Laurence Rogers and Laurence D. Rogers

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0963536907
• ISBN13: 9780963536907
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Historical Pr
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 1.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Paul Bunyan based in reality and this book traces the roots!

I you think Paul Bunyan is a cartoon character you're in for a surprise. This author has tracked the origin of the man, the name and the legend to a single lumberjack named Fabian Joseph Fournier! (an 1875 lumberjack logging in the upper reaches of (lower) Michigan) The author claims (and pretty much convinces) any reader that he was the inspiration for Bunyan. However, Fournier was no "all American" but a drunkard and brawler who supposedly had a double row of molars.These teeth left their marks on the wood bar rails in saloons and also on his enemies. The murder of this infamous lumberjack is a matter of record in the files of the small county (Bay) in Michigan. He was dealt a blow to the head in 1875 and the legal proceedings against the perpetrator gave rise to the Paul Bunyan myth. Rogers enables a reader to see how easily exaggeration came to the lumbermen in that era. It is a very worthwhile and entertaining American history lesson and would be a great Social Studies supplement for high school students! This man Fournier/Bunyan is America's most famous "tree feller". A fun book, lots of old pictures!