AN Mastrations by Fbhen Given, fram “Here's
Audacity l~—American Legendary Heroes,” by
Frank Shay, courtesy the Macaulay company,
publishers.
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
Yeurs American
they may have |
word of mouth
fore been collected and
So the recent
"Here's Audacity Am
roes” by the Macaulay company is 1 event of
importance to those whe
lca” mytl
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hs and legends
In the introduction Mr. Si
leans,
in their own image and endow
ers greater than
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west the
tells how Amer
their giants
pow-
like other people
cronte
them with
We are an ine
heroes are auda-
their own .
ation, therefore our
hero is Paul Bunyan, the lumberjack.
In West Virginia he Is again a lumberjack but
his name is Tony Beaver. In the Southwest
he becomes a cowboy and changes his name to
Pecos Bill. In Virginia he is a negro, a steel.
driving man, John Henry by name, In the oil
fields of Texas and Oklahoma he is a rotary
well- digger and calls himself Kemp Morgan,
On the railroads he becomes a mighty engineer
and has won fame as Casey Jones, On the oid
windjammers, he Is still the same mighty super-
man but his alias is “Old Stormalong.”
Old Stormalong's full name was Alfred Bulls
top Stormalong, and when he signed his Initials,
on the ship's log for his first skipper, that
worthy looked him over and said, “A. B. 8. Able-
Bodied Sailor, Jy your size and strength they
should measure the talents of all other sea
men” As for his size the sailors disagree.
Some say that he was fourteen fathoms tall and
others that he was “jes four fathoms from
the deck to the bridge of his nose.” And he
was fearless, too, One day his fellow sailors
couldn't pull up the anchor. An octopus was
wrapped around it and was holding it fast to
the bottom of the ocean, Over the side went
old Stormalong. There was a terrific struggle
under the water and then he emerged trium-
phant. After the anchor was safely shipped,
somebody asked Old Stormalong what he had
done to the octopus. “Jes' tied his arms in
knots, Double Carrick bends, It'll take him a
month o’ Sundays to untie ‘em.”
But Stormalong was never satisfied. He nev-
er lkonld find a ship big enough for him until
fin he signed on board the Courser. Later
w A new man was taken on, the first thing
helBiw when he hit the deck was a stable full
of Worses, for the Courser was so big that all
officers and men on watch were mounted on
horses and rode about their duties on them.
“Man alive, her rigging was so immense that no
living man could take her in at a single glance.
Her masts penterated the clouds and the top
sections were on hinges so they could be bent
over to let the sun and moon pass, Her sails
were $0 big that the builders had to take all
the able-bodied sailmakers out In the Sahara
desert to find room to sew ‘em.”
Kemp Morgan, the Texas oil driller, was like
Old Stormalong in that he too had to put
hinges in three different places on his derrick
so that it could be folded up to let the sun and
moon go by. It was so high that it took thirty
men to man it, fourteen men going up, four
teen men coming down, a man on top and a
.
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TONY BEAVER
Jou HENRY— Steel Driving Man
When he brought in his well
they had to put a roof
or and all the angels were raisin
man on duty.
spouted so high
because St, Pete
all h-—1 about the oil that
the floor of heaven, It
oil to reach the top and
for three n
was shootin’ throug
fo
took ten days
then it rained dos
weeks
But super-man that he was, not all of Mor
gan's wells brought in oil he got
a “duster,” a dry hole. But did he abandon it
us did other drillers? Not Kemp Morgan! “He
knew that no Kansas farmer could ever dig a
post hole in his hard bottom soil, He would
get his hands around his duster hole and pull
it up, four feet at a time, saw it off and ship
it to Kansas, Ask any Kansas farmer what he
thinks of the Kemp Morgan Portable Dost
Holes.”
ut Kemp Morgan wasn't the only Lone Star
product of note. There was Fecos Bill who
was lost by his parents when he was a year old
and grew ap among the catamounts and coyotes,
One day he wandered into the Golden Swan sa-
loon, and there met a cowboy who told him of
the joys of cow-punching. So Bill decided to
quit being a coyote, put on human clothes (it
took three coats, and two pairs of trousers pieced
out with three or four blankets and pieces of
cowhide to cover him) and became a cowhoy.
No horse was strong enough to carry him so he
caught a huge grizzly bear and broke it to ride,
And of course he became the greatest cowboy of
them all. He could outshoot any other cowboy,
he could outride any other cowboy and he could
out-drink any other cowboy.
Occasionally
Once Bill rode a Kansas cyclone, He rode it
through three states until they got to California
and when the eyclone saw it couldn't throw him
it rained out from under him and that was what
washed out the Grand canyon, Bill came down
with a mighty thud In California and the spot
where he landed is now known as Death valley,
a big hole in the ground, 300 feet below sea level,
Another mighty Texan was Strap Buckner who
went to that state with the first party of settlers
led by Stephen F. Austin. Strap had the pleas.
ant custom of knocking men down with a blow
between the eyes which he would “do In the most
friendly and courteous manner and with no in.
friends and his enemies, he knocked down In-
dians and grizzly bears and wildeats and buffalo,
But the greatest fight in which he ever engaged
was his battle with the Devil and In that fight
for once in his life he was defeated, Since Strap
Buckner was a heavy drinker the stories about
him are something In the nature of moral alle
gories and the Devil with whom he fought and
by whom he was worsted wus the Demon Rum,
Of him, Mr. Shay says: “Strap Bockner joins
the great army of avengers, He will be likened
to Angoulaffre, the giant Sarasen, who had the
strength of thirty men and whose cudgel was the
AuL Bunyan
it came and not Paul Bunyan
the greatest luml
Then there
bullder of the
was the time that Jit
(reat
Northern railroad
to build a barbed wire fence along the
way to keep the tr
gave the job of bulid
Paul Bunyan, He soon
to take too long to get
he sent up to Montana
trained gophers for
ging gophers,
two thousand post-hole-dig
sent an order to another
Then he
man who specialized in beavers and ordered five
hundred of these
to work
lengths and set gophers to
holes, “The gophers were innocent and
one had finished digging his hole he prepared
to make It his home. Then Paul would come
along with a post in one hand, drag the gopher
out of his hole with one hand
post in. There was nothing for the poor gopher
to do but to begin work on a new home The
gophers got pretty mad but who cares what a
gopher thinks?’ Paul didn't
fence done in plenty of time,
As for Tony Beaver in West Virginia they
will tell you that Tony who carries on his log
ging operations on Eel river is as great a lam-
berman as Paul Bunyan, But logging wasn't
his only interest: he was also a grower of the
biggest watermelons in the world which were so
big that by whittling out the insides, cutting
doors and windows and building fire places and
allowing the rinds to dry out in the sun, they
made wonderful houses,
As for the other super-Americans one is black
and the other is red, There is John Henry, the
negro steel driving man who was so fast with
his 12-.pound hammer that he was known to wear
ont two handles in one shift and he always had
to huve a boy with a pall of cold water standing
by so that he could keep his hammer cool. But
when steam driven drills came on the market,
John Henry declared that such new fangled In-
ventions were not necessary. He said he could
beat a steam drill and in a contest that was
specially arranged he did beat it. But he killed
himself tn doing It for after the contest was
over John Henry “laid down his hammah an’
he died.”
Then there is Kwasind, the Hercules of the
American Indians, of whom Longfellow wrote In
Hiawatha, It was Kwasind who filled his pipe
with tobacco, kindled it with a bolt of lightning,
and then emptied the live coals into the sea.
For three days he did this and on the fourth
day there rose up an island which is now known
as Nantucket island, off the coast of Massa.
chunetts. This and many other marvels did
“the very strong man Kwasind, he the strongest
of all mortala®™
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into six-foot
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cutting six-inch trees
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