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He got his start as stories told among lumberjacks to amuse themselves in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Whether there was ever an ''actual'' Paul Bunyan the stories are based on, and what similarity, if any, the surviving stories of him bear to the original logging camp yarns is a subject of much debate among folklorists.
The oldest surviving mention of him in print is a an article James MacGillivray wrote for the ''Detroit News'' in 1910 called "[
Starting in 1916, ad man W.B. Laughead wrote some pamphlets for the Red River Lumber Company that used stories of Paul Bunyan to try and sell their product; these pamphlets are collectively known as ''[http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=9182 The Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan]''. Laughead is credited with creating most of the commonly known Bunyan lore, [[Newer Than They Think|including Babe the Blue Ox and the idea that Paul Bunyan was a giant]].
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