Long Beards and Short Tales: Larger Than Life
Paul Bunyan, who caused earthquakes whenever he dropped his biscuits and whose ax handle was made out of a whole pine tree trunk, was never a real folk hero of the lumbering trade. He was the inspired invention of one William Laughead, advertising agent for the Red River Lumber Company of Minnesota and California from 1914 until 1930.
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