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Some American Folk Heroes this fine Sunday morning:
Here's Big Lize, the Bowery's toughest streetwalker, who would rescue girls forced into her line of work and hit uppity johns with a wagon tongue.
Some American Folk Heroes this fine Sunday morning:
Here's Toine Barada, the Omaha Aquaman, "Lifeguard of the Missouri", who would ferry folks escaping enslavement across the river to Nebraska on his back.
Some American Folk Heroes this fine Sunday morning:
Here's Cordwood Pete, America's second-best lumberjack and a grifter of renown
Some American Folk Heroes this fine Sunday morning:
Here's Annie Christmas, the toughest Keelboater on the Mississippi
Some American Folk Heroes this fine Sunday morning:
Here's "Honker" Kemp Morgan, who could sniff out trouble (sort of an olfactory spidey-sense) and oil, but those powers that would serve others served to keep him from a life with his true love.
Some American Folk Heroes this fine Sunday morning:
Here's Joe Magarac, the Croatian-born steelworker with impenetrable skin who smashed up the US Capital Building on account of some no good anti-immigrant congressmen
Some American Folk Heroes this fine Sunday morning:
Lottie Richers, the amorously acrobatic swamp darling whose necklace of suitor eyeballs made her the envy of her set
Some American Folk Heroes this fine Sunday morning:
Here's Ho, the fiddle-playing "Arkansaw Bear," and Bo, his young teacher and best friend. Ho's music can put to slumber any critter, so they can travel paths otherwise made inaccessible by cryptids and fearsome varmints.
A quick thread comparing the ages of the characters in Alexander Dumas's THE THREE MUSKETEERS and the ages of the actors playing them in adaptations: 1/