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"One of the marvels of early
Wisconsin was the Round
River, a river that flowed
into itself, and thus sped around in a never-ending circuit.
The
Bunyan saga tells how he floated many a log down its restless waters.
No one has suspected Paul of speaking in parables, yet in this instance
he did.
Wisconsin not only had a round river, all Wisconsin is one.
The current is the stream of energy which flows out of the soil into
plants, thence into animals, thence back into the soil in a never ending
circuit of life.
'Dust unto
dust' is a desiccated version of the Round River concept." - Aldo Leopold
"At Round River, in section 37, there was a forty shaped like a
pyramid, with a heavy growth of timber on all of its sides.
Bunyan and
his crew labored all one winter, 'the winter of the blue snow,' to clear it.
They cut one hundred million feet of timber.
Some of the men
got one short leg from working all winter on one side of the slope.
The
crew rolled logs cut on pyramid forty down to the bank and in the spring
started them down the river.
They drove for 'two weeks or more' hoping to reach a mill town where
they could dispose of them.
It was not until they had passed the sand
bar where they had camped several times that they realized
the river was round and had no
outlet.
Someone
recognized the pyramid." - Charles E. Brown, "American Folklore Paul
Bunyan Tales"
"'Twas '64 or '65 We drove the great Round River
Drive.
Those were the days in Michigan when any man could cut and skid
and log and haul, and there was pine enough for all.
Then all the
logger had to do was find some timber that was new besides a stream he knew ran
to Huron or to Michigan yo take the timber for the saws.
Paul Bunyan was
the king pin of 'em all, the greatest logger in the land.
He had a punch
in either hand, licked more men, drove more miles, got more drunk in more new
styles than any other peavey prince before or ever since.
Paul Bunyan
bossed that famous crew: A bunch of shoutin' bruisers, too- Black Dan
MacDonald, Tom McCann, Dutch Jake, Red Murphy, Dirty Dan, the kind of gang to
break a jam, to clear a bar or give a twenty to a bum." Douglas Malloch
& James MacGillivray, "Round River Drive
"During the winter of
the blue snow, Paul finished logging in Dakota and packed all his belongings on
the blue ox and came West.
It was the coldest winter on record.
While making breakfast one morning Paul
set the coffeepot on the back of the
stove while it was boiling and it froze so quick the ice was warm.
It was right here on the Skomack Paul met Puget, Hood and Rainer that
done so much to develop this part of the country, and here his son Jean was
born.
When he was 6 weeks old he jumped out of his cradle and cut all
four posts out from under Paul's bed.
Paul said: "That boy will be a
logger if he lives."
Paul built his new camp, with everything new, even
the dinner horn.
Paul was bound to try that out, and the first time it
was blown to call the men in for dinner he ran it out of the cook house door
and gave one blast, and down went three sections of green timber."
Timberblast, The Seattle Star, November 23, 1920
"GENTLEMAN, it is
my painful duty to break the news to you of a very sad bereavement.
I
am going to tell you of the death of Paul Bunyan, that famous character
familiar to all story-loving loggers.
Anybody who knew Paul would have
said that the only way to end his life would have been to hit him over the head
with a giant Redwood.
But the fact of the mater is that Paul died of a
broken heart.
Everybody remembers the Big Wind.
It seems we'll
never quite recover from it, because it rubbed trees together so hard that the
friction caused the final forest fire.
Anyway, on the day of the Big
Wind, Paul was cleaning his fingernails with a pine tree behind the cook house
when the Chore Boy came running out and told him that the sap in the trees
fermented because they acted drunk.
He'd been watching out the kitchen
window and the trees, one at a time, would turn completely over, burying their
branches in the ground and leaving the roots in the air.
Well sir, that
was just what was happening, but it wasn't drunkednessit was the wind.
And the worst of it was that Paul couldn't stop it.
He tried to
throw a chain around the wind and tow it back with the Blue Ox, and he tried
blowing it back, and a dozen and one other things, to no avail.
Suddenly, there was a big noise in the woods just ahead of the wind and
something the like of which Paul had never seen before, came snorting through
the trees.
It was a tractor, but it was a new one on Paul.
Well
sir, that tractor pushed it's nose into the wind and stopped it completely, and
the wind turned right around and went back where it came from, turning all the
trees right side up as it went.
As for Paulwell, Paul died of a
broken heart, and the tractor has taken his place as the mightiest thing in the
timber. " R. H. Mulch, "Logging Tractors Are Modern Need in Bush Work,"
Canada Lumberman, January 15, 1928, vol. 48, no. 2, Toronto, Ontario
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