Paul Bunyan Swings His Axe - Softcover

Dell J. McCormick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870044680 ISBN 13: 9780870044687

Publisher: Caxton Press, 1936

Synopsis

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press
Exciting and rollicking stories- seventeen in all- amusingly illustrated and written - celebrating the American mythology surrounding the giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan and his famed blue ox Babe.

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Dell J. McCormick was born in 1893 in Black River Michigan.  His family soon moved to Idaho where he worked in the sawmills and lumber yards of that frontier environment.  It was here that he began hearing and writing down the tall tales of Paul Bunyan and Babe that would end up delighting children for more than a 1/2 century.

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Paul Bunyan Swings His Axe by Dell J. McCormick

Copyright 1936 By The Caxton Printers, Ltd. All Rights Reserved

Paul Bunyan and His Boyhood

Many tales are told of Paul Bunyan the giant woodsman. Mightiest hero of the North Woods! A man of great size and strength who was taller than the trees of the forest. He had such strength in his huge arms that they say he could take the tallest pine tree and break it in two with his bare hands. They tell of his mighty deeds and strange adventures from Maine to California.

He could outrun the swiftest deer, and cross the widest river in one great stride! Even today lumberjacks who work in the woods find small lakes and point them out saying: "Those are the footprints of Paul Bunyan that have been filled with water."

A giant logger was Paul and he chopped down whole forests in a single day. And he and his woodsman logged off North Dakota in a single month! His axe was as wide as a barn door and had a great oak tree for a handle. It took six full-grown men to lift it!

They say that he was born in Maine and even as a baby he was so large that his mother and father had to have fourteen cows supply milk for his porridge. Every morning when they looked at him he had grown two feet taller. They built a huge cradle for Paul and floated it in the ocean off the coast of Maine. The ocean waves would rock him to sleep.

One day he starting bouncing up and down in his cradle and started a seventy-foot tidal wave that washed away towns and villages. After that Paul's folks gave up the idea of a floating cradle and took Paul with them into the Maine woods. Here they felt he could be kept out of mischief.

Edition details

• Publisher: Caxton Press
• Publication date: 1936
• ISBN 10: 0870044680
• ISBN 13: 9780870044687
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 111