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Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox
Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox is a legend from Bemidji, Minnesota, US β a folk story passed down over generations. This file collects its origins, its meaning and how it has been retold.
Where does the legend of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox come from?
- Location
- Bemidji, Minnesota, US
- Kind of legend
- Folk tale
- Coordinates
- 47.474, -94.88
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What is the legend of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox?
Paul Bunyan is the towering lumberjack of North American tall tales, a giant so vast that, folks swear, it took five storks to deliver him as a baby. Born in the logging camps of the northern woods and carried from Maine to the Pacific by generations of loggers, Paul was said to comb his beard with a pine tree and eat pancakes cooked on a griddle greased by men skating with bacon strapped to their feet. His constant companion was Babe the Blue Ox, an animal so enormous that the distance between its horns measured forty-two axe handles. Together they shaped the land itself: the tales claim Paul dug the Great Lakes to give Babe drinking water, and that the ten thousand lakes of Minnesota are the footprints the pair left behind. When Paul dragged his axe carelessly, he carved the Grand Canyon. Whether spun to pass long nights in the bunkhouse or later polished by advertisers, Paul Bunyan endures as the boastful, good-natured spirit of the American frontier's endless appetite and endless forests.
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