1. Was Paul Bunyan An Actual Person?
He was never to return.
The thickly built Bunyan coupled himself to the loggers of the northern forests. This is where
he quickly became the known as the "bull of the woods." From camp fire to camp fire, fables
of his exceptional activities were passed along to listening ears, larger-than-life tales that
made the conveying more convincing.
Author, Roy Stier, who was a logger himself in the Northwest forests of Ohop, Washington.
After leaving the logging industry to teach history in Santa Barbara, CA, he met fellow writer,
Jim Stevens.
Jim Stevens was persuaded by H.L. Mencken to put the tales he had collected about the folk
hero, Paul Bunyan in book form. He seized on the opportunity and Paul Bunyan was
published in 1925. A Walt Disney producer, Jim Stevens yearned to originate a new set of
legends about Paul Bunyan. It was his aspiration to pioneer new tales about Paul Bunyan Jr.
who would track, as it were, in his father’s footsteps.
Roy was privy to the idea that never came to fruition because of the demise of the Disney
studios at that time. Stevens passed away without seeing his dream come true. Stier
continued Jim’s inspiration by encompassing some of the stories alongside his own collection
of folk tales and Pauly Bunyan was born at some point in the late 1970s.
After pitching the idea to many book publisher’s, Roy Stier met Timeless Voyager Press
publisher, Bruce Stephen Holms in 2001. The publisher was elated with the opportunity to
have a trilogy of stories about Paul Bunyan’s son in their arsenal of material. So they
embarked on the mission of writing, editing, and formatting the books for the “tweens”
demographic.
By 2003, the first book in the series, The Swamp Angel was published. Only those closest to
Paul Bunyan were aware that he had fathered a child- a boy who had been kept away from
logging camps and the woods community. The first that most folks knew of the boy’s
existence was when the child was brought to the cabin of the camp keeper (food provider for
the camp) for the purpose of finding him a foster home.
After a few years in foster care, Pauly (Paul Bunyan's son) was left to the Swamp Angel by
Paul Bunyan because of a tragedy leaving the foster child homeless.
The beginning of the series was under way. Later, in book two, The Sacred Moonstone,
young Pauly Bunyan, having ended his adventures with the Swamp Angel, goes on a
pilgrimage seeking the super strength of his father. As a teenager, he is now on his own for
this venture into the unknown. Pauly, now fifteen years old, strikes out on his own in search
of the great strength his father had. His travels take him through several Indian nations, but it

2. is the sacred moonstone given to him by the Swamp Angel that is the key to receiving the gift
of strength from the great holy man himself, the Menabozho.
Finally, in book three, The Lost Tribe, Pauly decides to return to his first love, the woods, to
become a famous logger. His only connection is Horsecollar Camp where he lived for some
time during the previous winter, and it is at the mouth of the river leading to the camp that the
Mohegans leave him...now on the way to his next adventure.
The books are part of a series of three written by Roy Stier before his untimely death in 2007.
Timeless Voyager Press has re-issued the books as Kindle eBooks for all younger readers
who enjoy outdoor adventures and are interested in the ways of lost pioneering skills,
following the American Indian tales, and learning the ways of loggers and trappers. Set in the
deep forests of Ohop, Washington, the adventures will make your child's imagination run
wild. Digitally colored illustrations of the original black & white pictures accompany the many
chapters of the continuing adventures of Pauly, son of Paul Bunyan and his many logging
and Indian mentors.
This series is a perfect gift for young readers.
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