[UA] American Folklore Question

[Chad Underkoffler]

> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 23:40:21 -0700
> From: Stuart Anderson <stuartanderson at qwest.net>
>
>"K.A.G." wrote:
> 
> > Sorry to bug you guys with this, but I'm getting ready to
try
> > and design a whole American King Under the Mountain 
> > Myth campagin for UA and I can't find a thing of any 
> > substance online or in any of the bookstores near me on 
> > American Folklore. I can find Native American Folklore, 
> > South American Folklore, I can even find Russian Folklore
> > but nothing on Pecos Bill or John Henry, or most importantly
> > Paul Bunyon so if you guys no any sites or books the 
> > subject please tell me.
>
>  Part of that is the nature of the search. Try "tall tales"
and
> see if that helps. Academically speaking, some of the stories 
> you're referring to aren't technically folklore. Paul Bunyon
was 
> a mascot for detergent or flour or something, early this
century. 

Canon UA GMC Ken Hite has done a SUPRESSED TRANSMISSIONS column
on Paul Bunyan-- it's available online for Pyramid subscribers
($15 per anuum) and also in the second ST collection in
dead-tree format.

In terms of other resources, what I have in my Bibliomancy
Library includes:

GREAT AMERICAN FOLKLORE, compiled by Kemp P. Battle
AMERICAN FOLKLORE, Richard M. Dorson

Quick UAification:

Paul is a giant (I'd make him Andre the Giant sized), obsessed
with Lumberjacking, and True King of the Lumberjacks.

Pecos Bill is the True King of the Cowboys.

What of Daniel Boone as a possible American King? 

Wasn't there a Disney movie about Paul, Pecos, and John Henry
meeting up? I wanted to see it, anybody got the title?

Also, does anyone know the title of a children's book about this
family that gets hornswoggled into buying a single acres of land
(they actually bought 80 acres, only it was 1 acre wide and
eighty acres deep), but that land is like insanely fertile, so
if you spit out a watermelon seed, you have a full watermelon in
an hour or so?

Thanks



=====
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