In 1904, an uncredited editorial in the Duluth News Tribune described Bunyan’s year in North Dakota, during which he cut down millions of pieces of timber and the cooks in his giant camp skated on the stove with hams on their feet to cook for him. US #5556 – Bunyan is often accompanied by his blue ox, Babe. On March 17, 1893, Michigan’s Gladwin County Record published the first known printed reference to Paul Bunyan, reading “Paul Bunion is getting ready while the water is high to take his drive out.” The line appeared in the local news section, and was likely an inside joke, as Bunyan wouldn’t become a household name for several years. As lumber camps followed the great forests westward, Paul Bunyan acquired the traits and exploits of other people. After cutting and hauling from dawn to dusk, and after eating a filling meal, lumberjacks gathered ’round to exchange stories of the greatest lumberjack that ever was. Paul Bunyan stories evolved in logging shanties during the long winter evenings. It’s been suggested that his full name is the source of “Bunyan.” US #3084 – Fleetwood First Day Cover He participated in the Papineau Rebellion of 1837 against the British regime. Another French lumberman, Bon Jean, is also considered an inspiration. After he was murdered, the stories of his life spread through logging camps. Hired as a logging foreman in Michigan, he was nicknamed Saginaw Joe and was known for drinking and fighting. Standing at six feet tall, he towered over most other men and it was said he had giant hands and two complete sets of teeth, which he used to bite wooden rails. Some believe the legends of Paul Bunyan were in part based on Canadian lumberjack Fabian Fournier. It was during this push across the northern continent that Paul Bunyan became the lumberjack’s hero. The cry for lumber at home and abroad kept loggers pushing deeper into the woods. Logging was the principal work on the frontier after the great days of exploration and fur trapping. Mamarked the first recorded reference to Paul Bunyan in the Gladwin County Record.

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