Tall Tales:
Exaggerated stories with larger than life characters
Pecos Bill: he “invented” the lasso, tamed and rode a cyclone, used a rattlesnake as a whip (southwest U.S.)
Paul Bunyan: Very Big, created the grand canyon by dragging his axe handle,
Iron John: Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale (German)
Mike Fink: river-boatman who was real tough (ohio)
John Henry: John Henry is an American mythical (usually African-American) folk hero,
Johnny Kaw: is a mythical Kansas settler, big like Paul Bunyan said to have dug the Kansas River Valley, planted wheat, invented sunflowers, and grown giant potatoes
Big Joe Mufferaw was a French Canadian folk hero Joe had a "pet frog who was bigger than a horse, and barked like a dog."
