[UA] American Folklore Question

[John C]

>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.

I'd be tempted to tie Paul to the Green Knight somehow....  I'm not sure 
why; it's just a feeling.  Maybe it's the axe.  Perhaps the archetype of the 
Green knight visited the House of Renunciation?

>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?

I don't remember the title, but I do recall hearing very bad things about 
it...for what that's worth.

>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?

The author is Sid Fleischman, and the books are the "McBroom" series.  Lots 
of fun.

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