American Folk Heroes
Eight of America's legendary and historical folk heroes are interpreted through the eyes of Frederick Brown. Many of these tales were born to glorify the expansion of America and it's ideas during the age of the frontiers.
Included in the collection are the depictions of Davey Crockett and his adventures in young Tennessee, the solitary, mystical journey of Johnny Appleseed, the unbeatable cowboy Pecos Bill and Joe Magarac, a steelworker who symbolized the strength of America's industry. Also included are John Henry, the black steel driving man and hero to men who made way for the steam train; Mike Fink, the roughest of Mississippi river men; Stormalong, the greatest of adventuring seafarers; and Paul Bunyan, the giant lumberjack who's activities were used to explain the American landscape and the expansion of the nation.
These great heroes faced the classic struggles between man and nature, man and modernization and the conquest of the unknown while representing the ethnical diversity and the strength that made America.
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