The exact truth about the Legendary Paul Bunyan is clouded in the mist of history and may never be known. However, it might be Canada that may hold the key to the true birthplace of Paul Bunyan. The lore began during the Canadian Papineau Rebellion while many local loggers joined the cause of refusing to surrender to the English troops.

Among the loggers was a bellicose, bearded, mountain of a man named Paul Bunyan. Bellowing like thunder, with a huge wooden fork in one hand and a mattock in the other, this giant bull of a logger raged wildy among the troops. Paul's actions quickly grew to legendary proportions and spread throughout the Logging Camps.

The legendary tales of "Paul Bunyan" eventually made their way across the border through lumberjacks as they moved from one camp to another. The legend evolved and ultimately became the tall-tale stories commonly known throughout North America.

The Stories grew a little with each retelling and over time Paul became an inventor, and orator and even a diplomat, all rolled into one. It seemed the more impossible the job became, the more it became a job for Paul Bunyan. "The Logger who could do it all". By the early 20th Century, Paul Bunyan, Babe and his mythical logging crew had become household names and had finally reached legendary American folk hero status

John Inkslinger:

Paul Bunyan found John Inkslinger sitting on a cliff with one foot damming up the Twin Rivers. Paul added him to his crew as chief bookkeeper, surveyor, inventor and general efficiency expert.

7 Ax Men - Elmer:

Paul liked to work with big men. The most famous were his seven axemen. They were all named Elmer, so when he called they all came running. Each of these men was over six feet tall sitting down and weighed over 300 pounds.

Lucy - The Purple Cow:

Lucy, the Purple Cow, was a champion producer and furnished Paul's dairy products. She was content, so long as the grass was green. In the winter Paul fitted her with green glasses to make the snow look like grass. The year of the two winters it got so cold her milk turned to ice cream before it hit the pail. That was the winter Paul invented the double-deck ice cream cone.

Sourdough - Sam The Cook:

Sourdough Sam, the cook, fed Paul's logging crews. He made everything except coffee from sourdough. He lost one leg and one arm when a sourdough barrel blew up. A load of pork and beans with the ox team pulling it went through the ice on a nearby lake. Sam had large fires built along the shore and boiled the lake making bean soup. All winter he fed the men bean soup with an ox-tail flavor.

Sport - The Reversible Dog:

Finally, there was Sport the Reversible Dog who was the camp pet and the best hunter. One of the loggers accidentally cut Sport into two with an ax. In his haste to sew him up, the logger sewed Sport's hindquarters on upside down. This didn't hinder Sport who ran on his front legs until they were tired, then flopped over and ran on his hind legs. Sport's diet consisted mainly of door-to-door salesmen and Internal Revenue agents who visited the camp.