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8) Paul Bunyan
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Educator classic library volume 12
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A collection of tall tales about the giant logger and Babe, his blue ox. Includes definitions of colloquial and rare words used in the stories.
12) John Henry
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Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.
13) Pecos Bill
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Introduces folk hero Pecos Bill and his horse, Widow-Maker, relating some of the tall tales told about them throughout the country.
15) Mike Fink
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Relates the extraordinary deeds of the frontiersman who became king of the keelboatmen on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
17) Pecos Bill
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Recounts the life of Pecos Bill from the time he was raised with coyotes, to his completely changing and improving the art of cowpunching, to his final disappearance and the possible reasons for it.
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This book is a compilation of "urban legends," popular fables that describe presumably real events that happened to a friend of a friend, selected from a broad range of sources, including oral tradition, written versions, newspapers, literature, folklore studies, and the information superhighway.