Beaver, Tony
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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Beaver, Tony, giant hero of tall tales told by lumberjacks of the Southern mountains, was “a sort of relative” of
Paul Bunyan, whose mythical exploits he equals. In the Cumberland Mountains, one of his camps was located “up Eel River”; another was “way up in the Smokies.” His most famous associate was Big Henry, whose axe, when swung, came down “boo!” Tony Beaver was the author of many ingenious inventions, including that of peanut brittle, which he created when he stopped a flood by dumping into the stream the surplus crop of peanuts and molasses. His adventures are recorded by Margaret Montague in
Up Eel River (1928).
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