Stewart — Watt—Legends of Paul Bunyan. 
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LEGENDS OF PAUL BUNYAN, LUMBERJACK 
K. BERNICE STEWART AND HOMER A. WATT. 
The following study of lumberjack legends has grown out 
of a little collection of these tales made in the lumber-camps 
by Miss Stewart, who for years has heard the stories told 
by the lumberjacks of Wisconsin and Michigan. Recently 
by corresponding with and interviewing lumbermen and 
others who are or who have been intimately connected with the 
lumber-camps we have added to the original collection a 
considerable number of new legends, besides many different 
versions of stories already in our collection, and a great deal 
of miscellaneous information about the hero, Paul Bunyan, 
and his blue ox. Some of these stories, as must be expected 
of any such series, are too coarse for publication. It has 
seemed to us, however, that for the most part the tales are 
quite wholesome; perhaps the circumstances under which 
they were collected have automatically excluded those of 
the rougher type. We realize, moreover, that our present 
collection represents only a comparatively small number of 
these stories; versions which have come to us from Oregon 
and Washington indicate that the tales are widely spread. 
We expect to continue our search for Paul Bunyan material, 
and shall be very glad to receive any information which will 
assist us. Communications should be addressed to Mr. H. 
A. Watt, Department of English, New York University, 
New York. 
We wish to acknowledge our indebtedness to Mr. B. R. 
Taylor, Mr. M. W. Sergeant, and Mr. Harold Stark, stu¬ 
dents in the University who have recently lived in the lum¬ 
ber districts of northern Wisconsin, and who have heard 
Paul Bunyan tales from boyhood, to Mr. Douglas Malloch. 
of Chicago for a copy of his poem, The Round River Drive,, 
a metrical version of some of the tales which was published 
