He wanted to have an interesting way to inform the customers and so he asked his cousin Bill if he could provide some sketches and perhaps some stories about the legendary Paul Bunyan. He needed some sort of advertising to let the valued customers know about the move. When Archie took over the company, he decided it would be in his best interest to move the business to California where lumber was plentiful. Thomas Walker decided about that time to retire and leave The Red River Lumber Company business to his son Archie to manage. Lumber in Minnesota was beginning to be somewhat scarce in 1914. The tales told were most often amazing feats accomplished by lumberjacks or stories, some of which were greatly embellished. He was a good listener, and was fascinated with some of the stories he heard around the glowing camp fires. Over the years he proved himself and so progressed to assistant bull cook, cook, timekeeper, timber cruiser, surveyor and then construction engineer. Working for his uncle, he received no preferential treatment. Laughead, who expects to earn the lumber business in the great lumber region of the Northwest, took his departure this morning for Minnesota.”īill was 16 when he left Xenia hoping to make his fortune as an employee of his uncle Thomas Barlow Walker at the Red River Lumber Company in Minnesota. The Xenia Daily Gazette published this notice on April 23, 1900: “Mr. He became tired of the formal education he and decided to try another career. He enjoyed drawing and some success as an artist when he provided sketches for the Xenia High School annual.
Paul never existed in real life and his appearance is the figment of imagination of a Greene County native. He is known from coast to coast as a gigantic woodsman who could chop down a forest in a short time. One of my favorite folk legends is about Paul Bunyan.
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