#Paul bunyan sourdough inkslinger professional#
To mark the statues’ 50th birthday, a yearlong salute to the greatest woodsman of all time has been taking place here since the Paul Bunyan sled dog race took place on frozen Lake Bemidji in January.Īs part of Bemidji’s “The Year of the Legend,” there will be a Paul Bunyan Festival Thursday through next Sunday, with parades, dances, fish fries, barbecues, a log drive, and professional loggers shinnying up tall trees and whacking off the tops in true Paul Bunyan tradition. Giant statues of Paul Bunyan tower over Bemidji, Baxter and Akeley in northern Minnesota, with the oldest and best known statues of Paul and Babe on the shores of Lake Bemidji. It took a whole herd of cows to keep his milk bottles filled when he was a baby. When Paul Bunyan was born, it took five giant storks, working in relays, to deliver him to his parents. Youngsters spin yarns about Paul, his blue ox Babe, about his pals Johnny Inkslinger, Big Ole, Brimstone Bill, Sourdough Sam, the Seven Axmen and other characters from the legend. There are annual Paul Bunyan tall-tale contests in elementary schools with winners competing in regional storytelling runoffs. Schoolchildren in the North Woods of Minnesota more so than anywhere else in the country are brought up on Paul Bunyan stories as part of the heritage of the area’s logging tradition.
Paul Bunyan accidentally created the Mississippi River one day when he tipped over the tub he was washing his clothes in, northern Minnesota youngsters explain. He wore a size 73 shirt, size 80 boots, so the story goes. Why, Paul Bunyan, of course, the mightiest logger of them all, who logged all of North Dakota in a week.Įverywhere Paul Bunyan stepped a lake formed. Boys and girls living in the North Woods of Minnesota can tell you right off who created the Mississippi River, the Grand Canyon and all the lakes in their state.
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