What American folk hero is credited with creating the Grand Canyon, when he drug his axe behind him, Mt. Hood when he piled rocks to extinguish his camp fire, and dug the thousand lakes just to water his ox?
Paul Bunyan Laughhead noted that Paul Bunyan and Babe are said to have created the 10,000 lakes of Minnesota by their footprints. Later commenters would elaborate in more detail pointing out bodies of water such as Lake Bemidji. Some observers have noted that Lake Bemidji, itself, has a shape resembling something of a giant footprint when viewed from high above. Furthermore, latter authors, and possibly tourist agents, would add other geographic features to those Paul Bunyan was supposed to have created. Among others, Paul Bunyan has been credited with creating the Grand Canyon by pulling his ax behind him, and Mount Hood
His Three Calls to Cormac rose up then and he said: "I have but seven pigs, but I could feed the whole world with them, for the pig that is killed and eaten to-day, you will find it alive again to-morrow." Then entered another man, this one bearing an axe in his right hand and a log in his left with a pig following behind him. "It is time to make ready," said the man of the house, "for we have a high guest with us to-day." Then the man struck the pig and killed it, and he cut the logs and made a fire