Editing Tall tale (section)

===About real people===
Some stories are told about exaggerated versions of real people:
*[[Johnny Appleseed]] &ndash; a friendly folk-hero who traveled the [[West]] planting apple trees because he felt his guardian angel told him to
*[[John McNally (American football)|Johnny Blood]] &ndash; an American football player whose reputation for wild behavior was as well known as his on-field play
*[[James Bowie |Jim Bowie]] &ndash; A Kentuckian frontiersman, [[Texas Ranger Division |Texas Ranger]], and land speculator who fought for the Texan cause in the [[Battle of the Alamo]]. He is known for the [[Bowie knife]] which he used to disembowel opponents.
*[[Daniel Boone]] &ndash; blazed a trail across [[Cumberland Gap]] to found the first English-speaking colonies west of the [[Appalachian Mountains]]
*[[Strap Buckner|Aylett C. "Strap" Buckner]] &ndash; an [[Native Americans in the United States|Indian]] fighter of [[History of Texas#Republic of Texas (1836–1845)|colonial Texas]]<ref>
{{cite web
|title = Buckner, Aylett C.
|url = http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbu09
|work = [[Handbook of Texas Online]]
|publisher = [[Texas State Historical Association]]
|access-date = August 23, 2011
}}</ref>
*[[Annie Christmas]] &ndash; a Louisiana [[keelboat]] captain, who in real life was white, but in folklore and tall tales was turned into an [[African-American]] supernaturally strong woman who defied the gender norms of the time.
*[[Davy Crockett]] &ndash; a [[American pioneer | pioneer]] and U.S. Congressman from Tennessee who later died at the [[Battle of the Alamo]]
*[[Mike Fink]] &ndash; the toughest boatman on the [[Ohio River|Ohio]] and [[Mississippi River|Mississippi]] rivers, and a rival of Davy Crockett. Also known as the King of the Mississippi River [[Keelboat|Keelboatmen]].
*[[Peter Francisco]] &ndash; American Revolutionary War hero
*[[John Henry (folklore) |John Henry]] &ndash; a mighty steel-driving [[African American]]
*[[Calamity Jane]] &ndash; a tough Wild-West woman
*[[Jigger Johnson]] (1871–1935), a [[lumberjack]] and [[log driving|log driver]] from [[Maine]] who is known for his numerous off-the-job exploits, such as catching [[bobcat|bobcats]] alive with his bare hands, and drunken brawls<ref>''Appalachia'' Appalachian Mountain Club, 1964.</ref><ref>Monahan, Robert. "Jigger Johnson", ''New Hampshire Profiles magazine'', Northeast Publications, Concord, New Hampshire, April, 1957.</ref>
*[[Casey Jones]] &ndash; a brave and gritty [[railroad]] engineer
*[[Nat Love]], also known as "Deadwood Dick", was born a slave in Tennessee in 1854. Tales of his adventures after emancipation, as a cowboy and as a Pullman porter, gained such fantastical elements as to be considered tall tales
*[[Sam Patch]] &ndash; an early 19th-century daredevil who died during a jump on Friday the 13th
*[[Molly Pitcher]] &ndash; a heroine of the [[American Revolutionary War]]
*[[Blackbeard]] spawned various tall tales surrounding his involvement with piracy from 1717–1718