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• Johnny Appleseed

  a Tall Tale Retold and Illustrated

  Kellogg, Steven

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  John Chapman an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

• The Trailblazing Life of Daniel Boone

  and How Early Americans Took to the Road

  Harness, Cheryl

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  an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.

• Davy Crockett

  Frontier Legend

  Stanley, George Edward

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  American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture as the "King of the Wild Frontier"

• Molly Pitcher

  Dolbear, Emily J.

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  a nickname given to a woman said to have fought in the American Battle of Monmouth, who is generally believed to have been Mary Hays.

• Casey Jones

  Krensky, Stephen

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  the nickname of John Luther Jones, an engineer for the Illinois Central Railroad, who was killed while attempting to stop his passenger train from colliding with a stalled freight train in Vaughan, Mississippi.

• Johnny Kaw

  a Tall Tale

  Scillian, Devin

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  a mythical Kansas settler whose exploits created elements of the Kansas landscape and helped establish wheat and sunflowers as major crops.

• Pecos Bill

  a Tall Tale

  Kellogg, Steven

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  an American cowboy, apocryphally immortalized in numerous tall tales of the Old West during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona

• Paul Bunyan

  Krensky, Stephen

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  a lumberjack figure in North American folklore and tradition. One of the most famous and popular North American folklore heroes, he is usually described as a giant as well as a lumberjack of unusual skill, and is often accompanied in stories by his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bigfoot

  Williams, Dinah (Dinah J.),

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  also known as "Sasquatch", is the name given to an ape-like creature that some believe inhabit mostly forests in the Pacific Northwest region of, and throughout the entirety of, North America.

• The Legend of the Jersey Devil

  Noble, Trinka Hakes, 1944-

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  a legendary creature said to inhabit the New Jersey Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey

• Mothman

  Sightings and Investigations of the Iconic Flying Cryptid

  Estep, Richard, 1973-

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  a mythical creature from Point Pleasant, West Virginia described as a large humanoid with glowing red eyes on its face and large bird-like wings with fur covering its body.