Folktales and Legends of the Middle West

“Entertaining, informative, appealing, charming, and a thoroughly compelling read from first page to last . . . unreservedly recommended.” —Midwest Book Review

America’s first superheroes lived in the Midwest. There was Nanabozho, the Ojibway man-god who conquered the King of Fish, took control of the North Wind, and inspired Longfellow’s The Song of Hiawatha. Paul Bunyan, the larger-than-life North Woods lumberjack, created Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes with his giant footsteps. More recently,...