12.16.2022 - By Wisconsin Public Radio
Paul Bunyan stories are plentiful. He cleared forests with one swing of his ax. He and his trusty bovine, Babe the Blue Ox, dug the Great Lakes to quench the thirst of his fellow loggers. He created the Mississippi River by simply dragging his ax behind him. But why? That’s what Ryan Urban of Rice Lake wanted to know, so he reached out to Wisconsin Public Radio’s WHYsconsin.