BUNYAN, PAUL, a mythical hero of the lumber camps of the American north-west. According to James Stevens, the author of one version of the legends (Paul Bunyan, 1925) the stories which have been told in American timber lands for genera tions are of Canadian origin, but "it was the American loggers below the Border who made of Paul Bunyan a true hero of camp nights' entertainment. They gave him Babe, the blue ox, who measured forty-two ox handles and a plug of chewing tobacco between the horns. They created the . . . mythical logging camp. with the cookhouse of mountainous size and . . . they peopled this camp with astounding minor heroes. They made their Paul Bunyan an inventor and an orator and an industrialist whose labours surpassed those of Hercules. They devised a chronology for him ; he ruled American life in the period between the Winter of the Blue Snow and the Spring that the Rain Came Up From China." In any case, the legend which is said to have begun in the Papineau Rebellion in Canada in 1837, when a "mighty muscled, bellicose, bearded giant named Paul Bunyan . . . raged among the Queen's troops like Samson among the Philistines," had, by 186o, spread throughout the north-west, and perhaps even into the south where under the name of John Henry he became "the man worth talking about" in the work camp gang. Accord ing to Esther Shephard in her Paul Bunyan (19 a4) "some evidence points to a French-Canadian origin among the loggers of Quebec or northern Ontario, who may even have brought them from the old country. But other evidences point just as strongly to an American beginning, possibly in Michigan or Wisconsin." In the Minnesota camps, . . . the guards were "undoubtedly enriched by Scandinavian myth, and there Paul became a sort of modern Thor." At other places he became coloured by Indian legend. But whatever his habitat, he is best known and enjoyed in the stories of Babe, the Blue Ox; The Winter of the Blue Snow; Digging Puget Sound and Paul's Hunting, which are found in the books mentioned above.