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Brown, Charles E.
Paul Bunyan and Tony Beaver Tales: Tall Yarns of the Prince of
American Lumberjacks and his Southern Cousin Tony Beaver as Told in
the Logging Camps in the North and South. Madison, Wis.: C. E.
Brown, 1930. Rpt. 1982. Also available in Library of Congress microfilm.
Carmer, Elizabeth and Carl. Tony Beaver, Griddle Skater. Illus.
Mimi Korach. Champaign, Illinois: Garrard Publishing Company, 1965.
"Tony Beaver, West Virginia woodsman and champion griddle skater
of the Southern States, challenges his cousin Paul Bunyan to a griddle
skating race" (WorldCat). Filmstrip based on this book New York:
Taylor Associates, 1970.
Carmer,
Carl Lamson. The Hurricane's Children. Illus. Elizabeth Black
Carmer. New York: D. McKay, 1937. American tall tales, including "How
Tony Beaver Built the Candy Dam," "How John
Henry Beat the Steam Drill Down," and "How Davy
Crockett Fiddled His Daughter Out of A Husband."
Cober, Mary E. The Remarkable History of
Tony Beaver, West Virginian. Illus. William D. Hayes. New York: David McKay, 1953.
Tony
Beaver. Section in teaching unit West Virginia's
Appalachian Music and Literature (1997), with a variety of teaching
materials on Tony Beaver, including audio readings, writing exercise
on tall tales, illustrations (drawing at left by Mark Clayton), and
discussion questions on "Folk Heroes" Tony and John Henry.
(Formerly in West Virginia's World School web site, now reprinted
in AppLit.) Contains an overview with the story of Tony's race with
Paul Bunyan and "Tony Beaver
and the Watermelon Party" reprinted with photos of objects
in the story and read by Phil Wyatt. Based on the story "Eel's
Landing Throws a Watermelon Party," in The Remarkable History
of Tony Beaver by Mary E. Cober.
Hillchild: A Folklore Chapbook about, for, and by West
Virginia Children. Edited by Dr. Judy Byers and Noel W. Tenney,
West Virginia
Folklife Center, Fairmont State College. Vol. 1, 2002, contains
stories, background, and related activities on tall tales and hero
Tony Beaver. Includes cover drawing of Tony Beaver by Noel W. Tenney,
also map of Eel River and illustrations by John H. Randolph. "Man
of West Virginia" and "A Problem Solved" are short
Tony Beaver tales collected by Ruth Ann Musick, from the WV Folklife
Center archives. See Review
of vol. 1 in Applit.
Malcolmson, Anne. Yankee Doodle's Cousins. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1969. Includes Tony Beaver and Davy
Crockett.
Montague, Margaret Prescott,
ed. Up Eel River. New York: Macmillan, 1928. "This collection
contains legendary tall tales about Tony Beaver, a strong hero in
the lumber campus of West Virginia. Tony Beaver is the Paul Bunyan
of Appalachia" (note by Judy P. Byers). Illustrated with silhouettes.
Montague, Margaret Prescott. "Big
Music." In American Folk and Fairy Tales. Ed.
Rachel Field. New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1929, pp. 197-222.
Followed by two Paul Bunyan stories. Also contains three Southern
Mountain Stories: "Gally Mander" and two Kentucky tales
by Percy MacKaye.
Rees, Ennis. The Song of Paul Bunyan and Tony Beaver. Illus.
Robert Osborn. New York: Pantheon, 1964. 183 pp. This is a 39-chapter
narrative poem based on older prose retellings of Paul Bunyan tales,
and the main source for Tony Beaver is Montague's Up Eel River.
Rees, Ennis. The Song of Paul
Bunyan and Tony Beaver. LP. Spoken Arts, 1967. "Poem read
by the author. . . Edition recorded: New York, Pantheon Books, 1964.
. . Author's notes concerning the poem on slipcase" (WorldCat).
"Tony Beaver ... Axe-Swinger
of Old Virginny." In Simon, Tony.
Far Out Tales. 1975 (Original title: Ripsnorters and
Ribticklers: Famous American Folk Tales. Scholastic, 1958). Includes Paul Bunyan and other American
tall tales.
Tall Tales in American Folklore: Tony Beaver. Filmstrip.
Coronet Instructional Media, 1972. "Tells the tale of the West
Virginia lumberjack, Tony Beaver, who invented matches, clothespins,
and peanut brittle. For elementary grades" and junior high school.
With study guide (WorldCat). 11 minutes. Others in this series of
6 filmstrips include Davy
Crockett, Stormalong, Johnny Appleseed, Febold Feboldson, and
Big Mose.
See also
Appalachian tall tales in picture book bibliography,
such as Swamp Angel by Isaacs & Zelinsky, Sally Ann
Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett by Kellogg, The Tale of Willie
Monroe by Schroeder and Glass.
John Henry
- Legendary tall tale hero also associated with West Virginia
Compare
with other American tall tale heroes, such as the lumberjack
Paul Bunyan. Steven Kellogg has pictures books on Bunyan and other
tall tales. AppLit's folktale collections
bibliography includes Appalachian and other American tall tales.
Last
update: 7/28/05
Links checked 7/28/05
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