Bowleg Bill
Bowleg Bill is an American fakelore folk hero, a Wyoming cowboy hand who went seafaring.[1][2][3]
Books
- Jeremiah Digges, Bowleg Bill, The Sea-Going Cowboy, Viking Press. NY. 1938. First edition ISBN 1121783597, ASIN: B000ILSNLE
- Also printed as Bowleg Bill, the sea-going cowboy;: Or, Ship ahoy & let 'er buck! ASIN: B00086NDPK[4]
- The book is a compilation of tall tales about a cowboy born in Wyoming to become a sailor, never an able-bodied one, but with many adventures, including the luring of whales with his music, capturing a mermaid, mutineering.[5]
- "The Strange Adventure of the Cowboy-Sailor" in a 1948 collection New England bean-pot; American folk stories to read and to tell.[6] tells a story of Bowleg Bill meeting giant sea serpent and embark on a quest to find woman named Keziah.[7]
- Harold W. Felton, Bowleg Bill, Seagoing Cowpuncher, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1957. From review: " The exuberant chronicle of the exploits of Bowleg Bill, an eight-foot cowboy who rides herd on tuna fish and she-whales and he-whales, makes the most of two professions given to tall tales -- whaling and bronco-busting. The mixture of the jargon of the range and the poop-deck add to the incongruity of this beef-and-blubber comedy."[8]
- Wyatt Blassingame, Bowleg Bill, Seagoing Cowboy, Garrard Publishing Company; first edition, 1976, ISBN 0811640442
References
- ↑ "All of America's folk heroes, in one map", a 1946 map by cartoonist William Gropper, shown at Vox
- ↑ Marshall Fishwick, Popular Culture in a New Age, p.44
- ↑ Man rides two-ton tuna. herds other fish. NEW ENGLAND: Botkin American 192-204. 1944. Dorson American Scholar l0:390-91. 1941 (Bowleg Bill), as cited in: Ernest W. Baughman, Type and Motif-Index of the Folktales of England and North America
- ↑ Entry at WorldCat
- ↑ 'American Regional Folklore: A Sourcebook and Research Guide, p. 101
- ↑ New England bean-pot; American folk stories to read and to tell, WorldCat entry
- ↑ New England bean-pot: American folk stories to read and to tell at Google Books snippet view
- ↑ A review at Kirkus Reviews
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