Tall tales

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Paul Bunyan and the tall tale invented on the American frontier Baron Munchausen and the European ancestry of the whopper Mark Twain's use of the tall tale frame in his fiction How dime novels and almanacs turned tall tale heroes into print characters What a tall tale shares with a legend and where the two part Pecos Bill and why the tall tale hero is always bigger than the landscape Davy Crockett in print and how a real man became a tall tale hero Fisherman's stories and the way a measurement grows in the retelling How a hunter's story grows and where exaggeration stops being funny How the tall tale keeps a straight face while describing the impossible Why a tall tale fails the moment the narrator winks at the audience How sea yarns turn bad weather into an adventure story Modern advertising and its debt to the tall tale Lying contests and the unwritten rules of competitive exaggeration

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