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Heroic tales where truth and imagination meet, defining the American spirit.

An illustration of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox in a snowy northern forest, from American folklore.

Paul Bunyan: The Giant Lumberjack of the North Woods

October 27, 2025

In the deep, snowbound forests of America’s Upper Midwest, where winters were long and legends were born, there once lived a lumberjack so enormous that the ground trembled when he took a step. His name was Paul Bunyan, and his story echoes through the pinewoods from Michigan to Minnesota, told and retold by generations of loggers gathered around glowing campfires.

Parchment-style artwork of Slue-Foot Sue riding Widowmaker, Texas frontier folktale scene.

American Folk Heroes·American Legends

Slue-Foot Sue: The Daring Cowgirl of the American Southwest

In the sweeping deserts and rolling hills of the American Southwest during the late 1800s, a legendary figure emerged whose stories of courage and humor captivated all who heard them. Slue-Foot Sue, a fearless cowgirl and the beloved sweetheart of Pecos Bill, was no ordinary woman. Her adventures blended daring

Parchment-style artwork of Febold Feboldson lassoing a tornado, Nebraska Great Plains folktale scene.

Febold Feboldson: The Giant of the Great Plains

In the late 19th century, across the endless grasslands and rolling plains

a haunted Tennessee farmhouse under moonlight with a ghostly female spirit near the window and the Bell Witch Cave in the distance.

The Bell Witch of Tennessee

In the early 1800s, the quiet farmlands of Robertson County, Tennessee, held

Molly Pitcher and the Cannon Smoke

October 17, 2025

American Legends

The sun over Monmouth was a white-hot coin, hammered flat against the sky. It was the kind of heat that baked gunpowder into clumps and cooked courage right out of a man’s bones. Soldiers staggered. Horses foamed. Even the shadows seemed to pant. Down the rutted path from a farmhouse

John Henry and the River Tunnel

October 17, 2025

American Legends

When the rails first crossed the Appalachians, the mountain itself seemed to rise up and say, “Not through me.” The company men, wearing suits too fine for the dust they kicked up, pointed at the dark gorge by the river and said, “We’ll put a tunnel there, boys. The train