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By: Natalie Abner
Tall Tale Characters
• This tall tale figure was based on a real man who was once an Indian scout on the Ohio river.
• He claimed that he could wrestle alligators, ride a mouse like a horse, and outrun or outshoot any man in America.
• He was called “King of the Keel boatmen”
• Davy Crockett described him as “ half horse and half alligator”
Mike Fink
• He achieved his distinctive color after surviving a snow storm
• He used the Great Lakes as watering holes and helped straighten out curvy logging roads
• He was the animal companion of Paul Bunyan
Babe The Blue Ox
• He worked in an orchard as a young man in Massachusetts
• He was also a missionary in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois
• He as an American conservationist who brought apple trees to western Pennsylvania and other states to the west Pennsylvania and other states to the west
• His real name is John Chapman
• He always walked barefoot, and he wore a pail for a cap
Johnny Appleseed
• This folk hero was a real person who represented Tennessee in the U.S. House or Representatives
• He was an expert marksman who wore a trademark coonskin cap
• He was nicknamed the “King of the Wild Frontier,” and died at the Battle of the Alamo
Davy Crockett
• This folk hero was associated with the Big Bend Tunnel in West Virginia’s Allegheny Mountains. A statue of this folk hero stands nearby this tunnel
• He saved his friend’s jobs by defeating a steam-power hammer in a race
• He was an African-American folk hero, who “died with his hammer in his hand”
John Henry
• This legendary figure is based on a real man who grew up in western Kentucky
• He was an engineer on the Cannonball Express and died when it collided with a stalled freight train
• He was known for his skill with a train whistle
Casey Jones
• He was a legendary Texas cowboy who was raised by a pack coyotes
• His favorite food was dynamite, he sometimes rode a mountain lion, and he once lassoed a tornado
• He married Slue-Foot-Sue and often rode the horse, Widow Maker
Pecos Bill
• A tall-tale legend giant often accompanied by his pet, Babe the Blue Ox
• He was said to have flattened the Great Plains as part of his career as a lumberjack
• According to legend, this gigantic man dug out the grand canyon
• He and his pet created both the Great Lakes and Minnesota’s ten thousand lakes
Paul Bunyan
• He was a mythical West Virginia woodsman and Paul Bunyan’s cousin
• Supposedly, he was the champion griddle skater of the southern United States
• He built a log camp on a high mountain just beyond Eel River
Tony Beaver
• This legendary character shot at clouds while riding a catfish down the Rio Grande River
• She is the wife of Pecos Bill
• According to legend, when her husband’s horse Widow Maker, bucked her, she bounced up to the moon
Slue-Foot Sue
• This folk hero’s actual name was Martha Jane Canary she was an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok
• She skilled Indian fighter
• She also known as the toughest woman in the Wild West
Calamity Jane
Works Citedhttps://www.google.com/search?q=davy+crockett&biw=1600&bih=805&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=VNWuVMuyKYGwyATqhYDgCQ&sqi=2&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&dpr=1
https://www.google.com/search?q=tall+tall+characters&biw=1600&bih=805&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=t9euVOjMJoH5yQSA9YKQBg&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAw
http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/tall-tales/
http://www.42explore.com/talltale.htm
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