![]() hit a mountain, and a baby boy tumbled off. Part of the spun tale is that a ' comet shot out of the sky. ![]() ![]() He ran for Congress in 1827, and died at the Alamo in 1936. The real Crockett was born in Tennessee in 1786, hunting, trapping, and clearing land to build homesteads, along with the rest of the settlers. ![]() McCurdy's representation of Johnny Appleseed shows that he was larger than ordinary folk, even when he was a young boy, and there's also Paul Bunyon's blue bull in all its glory. Michael McCurdy's wood engravings and drawings add realistic impressions to the text, such as Crockett in his coonskin hat, wrestling a panther, and Davy's fictional wife, Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind up against a bear and a large snake. Embellishments of the lives and deeds of such men and women are attributed to the ' storytelling of ordinary people', and the ' imagination of professional writers'. In her Introduction, Osborne writes that a few of the tall-tale characters were real-life historical figures, such as Davy Crockett and Johnny Appleseed. American Tall Tales by Mary Pope Osborne & Michael McCurdyĪward-winning author Mary Pope Osborne brings together nine folk heroes in American Tall Tales. ![]()
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