The Paul Bunyan Story

About the Book

A fictional hero from Maine, Paul Bunyan’s journey, with Babe the Blue Ox, began, as the story tells, with his birth in Patten, Maine and follows the two giants across America to Alaska and up to the Yukon. THE PAUL BUNYAN STORY includes his marriage (surprised?), how he found Babe and the incredible jacks that ventured with the two. Want to know how the Great Salt Lake got its name? How the red dirt in Prince Edward Island, Canada got red? How oil was discovered in Alaska? It’s all here, and more, in THE PAUL BUNYAN STORY.

About the Author

ALLAN R. WATSON, a native of Saco, Maine, has, for all the fans of Paul Bunyan in Maine, brought the giant lumberjack back where he started – in Maine. Mr. Watson, a former teacher and pastor in Maine, a graduate (MS) from the University of Southern Maine and a frequent visitor to Prince Edward Island, Canada, has always encouraged young scholars in Maine to embrace the literary giants from Maine such as Longfellow to Stephen King, the political giants from Maine such as Joshua Chamberlain and Percival Baxter and now the fictional giant from Maine – Paul Bunyan. Mr. Watson can be reached via email at allan3842@aol.com.