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Wisconsin played essential role in the legend of Paul Bunyon

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A Wisconsin historian and author says he has found the answer to a question that has puzzled folklorists for years:where did the legend of Paul Bunyan start?As Glen Moberg reports, the first Bunyan stories weren’t told in Minnesota, Maineor Michigan; they got their start in an 1880’s lumber camp near Tomahawk, Wisconsin…

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