American tall tales

Parchment-style artwork of Pecos Bill riding a cyclone across the Texas plains, American folktale scene.

Pecos Bill,The Wildest Cowboy: An American Folktale That Teaches Lessons on Courage and Imagination

by Oyebode Ayoola

October 21, 2025

American Folktales·American Tall Tales

In the dusty wilds of the Texas frontier, where the horizon stretched wider than any man could see and the sunsets burned like fire, there lived a cowboy so wild, so daring, and so full of life that no other could match him. His name was Pecos Bill, and his legend grew as vast as the desert sky. Bill’s story

Parchment-style artwork of Davy Crockett firing into the sunrise on a frosty Tennessee hill, American folktale scene.

American Folktales·Classic American Tales

Davy Crockett and the Frozen Dawn: An American Folktale that Teaches Lessons on Boasting and Humor

In the early days of the American frontier, when the land stretched wild and untamed across Tennessee, there lived a man whose name was known in every cabin and campfire tale, Davy Crockett. Hunter, soldier, lawmaker, and storyteller, he was as famous for his bold deeds as for the tall

Pecos Bill riding a tornado across a desert landscape, with Slue-Foot Sue smiling from the moon above the sunset.

Pecos Bill (The Wild Cowboy of the American West)

Once upon a time in the wide, wild land of the American

A powerful frontier woman laughing as she wrestles a bear beneath storm clouds on the American frontier

Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett

Long before towns spread across the hills and long before railroads split

A young ranch hand standing on the open plains as a distant tornado forms under a dark sky.

The Boy Who Lassoed a Tornado’s Tail

January 10, 2026

American Folktales·American Tall Tales

Long before fences stitched the Southern Plains into neat squares, the land rolled open and wide beneath a sky that never learned restraint. Wind was a constant companion there. It whispered through grass, howled across flat earth, and sometimes rose up furious and spinning, demanding attention from anyone foolish enough