So, Douglas....

Does that include tall tales? Does anyone over the age of reason believe that Pecos Bill has to shoot his bouncing bride, Slew Foot Sue, to prevent her from starving to death? That Paul Bunyan built an oil derrick so high that he had to hinge the top to let the moon past? That Stormalong really had a boat so large that the White Cliffs of Dover are white because its sides scraped both edges of the English Channel? That Febold Feboldson grew turnips so big that he hollowed one out and used it for a barn? That the soil in Illinois is so fertile that if you drop a seed of corn you have to immediately jump back or you'll be carried into the sky? That during one extremely hot summer the corn started popping on the cob, covered the field with popcorn, and some nearby cattle/mules/horses thought that it was snow and froze to death? That I was out riding, saw a Blue Norther blowing up, and it came on so fast that although I galloped as fast as the horse would go when I got into the barn I found that the back end of my sweating horse was covered with snow and his tail was frozen?

I mean, anyone besides me?

And yet...Jim Bridger told of the echo alarm clock and the glass mountain, and these passed into truths as the stories traveled Eastward and eventually were written into British travel guides.

And why not create a history? The truth is out there...and doing research never hurt anyone.