Bowleg Bill
{{Short description|American fakelore folk hero}}
Bowleg Bill is an American fakelore folk hero, a Wyoming cowboy hand who went seafaring.[https://www.vox.com/2015/3/20/8265497/american-folklore-map "All of America's folk heroes, in one map"], a 1946 map by cartoonist William Gropper, shown at VoxMarshall Fishwick, Popular Culture in a New Age, [https://books.google.com/books?id=7onJAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA44 p.44]Man rides two-ton tuna. herds other fish. New England: Botkin American 192-204. 1944. Dorson American Scholar 10: 390-91. 1941 (Bowleg Bill), as cited in: Ernest W. Baughman, Type and Motif-Index of the Folktales of England and North America
Books
- Jeremiah Digges, Bowleg Bill, The Sea-Going Cowboy, Viking Press. NY. 1938. First edition {{ISBN|1121783597}}, {{ASIN|B000ILSNLE}}
- Also printed as Bowleg Bill, the sea-going cowboy;: Or, Ship ahoy & let 'er buck! {{ASIN|B00086NDPK}}[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/610445411 Entry] at WorldCat
:The book is a compilation of tall tales about a cowboy born in Wyoming to become a sailor, never an able-bodied one, but with many adventures, including the luring of whales with his music, capturing a mermaid, mutineering.American Regional Folklore: A Sourcebook and Research Guide, [https://books.google.com/books?id=vPS0Mi0QfmgC&pg=PA101 p. 101]
- "The Strange Adventure of the Cowboy-Sailor" in a 1948 collection New England bean-pot; American folk stories to read and to tell.[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2974045 New England bean-pot; American folk stories to read and to tell], WorldCat entry tells a story of Bowleg Bill meeting giant sea serpent and embark on a quest to find woman named Keziah.[https://books.google.com/books?id=qSfgAAAAMAAJ&q=%22bowleg+bill%22+keziah New England bean-pot: American folk stories to read and to tell] at Google Books snippet view
- Harold W. Felton, Bowleg Bill, Seagoing Cowpuncher, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1957. From review: " The exuberant chronicle of the exploits of Bowleg Bill, an eight-foot cowboy who rides herd on giant tuna fish and she-whales and he-whales, makes the most of two professions given to tall tales -- whaling and bronco-busting. The mixture of the jargon of the range and the poop-deck add to the incongruity of this beef-and-blubber comedy."[https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/harold-w-felton-4/bowleg-bill-2/ A review] at Kirkus Reviews
- Wyatt Blassingame, Bowleg Bill, Seagoing Cowboy, Garrard Publishing Company; 1st ed., 1976, {{ISBN|0811640442}}
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