Born: 11/15/1892   Albia
Died: 1971
Parents: Hague A. Stevens, Octavia Stevens

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Green Power; the Story of Public Law 273	Non Fiction	Adult	Superior Publishing	1958
	Saginaw Paul Bunyan	Folklore	Adult , Teen	New York: A.A. Knopf	1932
	Homer in the Sagebrush	Fiction	Adult	New York: A. A. Knopf	1928
	Mattock	Fiction	Adult	New York: A.A. Knopf	1927
	Brawny-Man	Fiction	Adult	New York: A. A. Knopf	1926
	Paul Bunyan	Folklore	Adult	New York: Alfred A. Knopf	1925

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James Stevens is included because he was the first to compile various assorted tall tales about the logger, Paul Bunyan, and collected them into a best-selling book in 1925. It was the first time the Bunyan legend had been popularized on a national scale. Stevens had heard many of the tales firsthand while working in Oregon logging camps. He also researched the Bunyan character, tracing the legend back to 1837 French Canada and a possible real logger named Paul Bunyon. Stevens noted that by 1860 Bunyan had become an American hero, and seemed to have inhabited a number of states, including Maine, Michigan, California, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, North Dakota."

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