One other landmark that he is responsible for is the Painted Desert. So Pecos grabbed a stick and dug the Rio Grande River. He and his horse got stranded in the desert and needed water. Another story is of him creating the Rio Grande River. It rained so much that the Gulf of Mexico was created. Apparently, there was a drought in Texas that was so horrible, that Pecos rushed to California and lassoed up a storm cloud and brought it to Texas. One landmark he is said to have created is the Gulf of Mexico. Īccording to legend, Pecos Bill is responsible for creating many landmarks. Shafter was considered a hero in Texas, and even had some legendary poetry written about how tough he was. "Pecos Bill" was also the nickname of Civil War general William Shafter, although this was before O'Reilly created the legend. He was portrayed by Steve Guttenberg in a 1985 episode of Tall Tales & Legends and by Patrick Swayze in Disney's 1995 film Tall Tale. Pecos Bill made the leap to film in the 1948 Walt Disney animated feature Melody Time. The cartoons originally were published in The Sun and were later syndicated. This was a story about "Pecos Bill", who had received a "lump on the naggan" that caused him amnesia.
When O'Reilly died in 1946, Warren began a strip titled Pecos Pete. Warren, also known as Alonzo Vincent Warren, between 19. Įdward O'Reilly co-authored a cartoon strip with cartoonist Jack A. Dorson found that O'Reilly invented the stories as "folklore", and that later writers either borrowed tales from O'Reilly, or added further adventures of their own invention to the cycle.
O'Reilly claimed they were part of an oral tradition of tales told by cowboys during the westward expansion and settlement of the southwest, including Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.
The first known stories were published in 1917 by Edward O'Reilly for The Century Magazine, and collected and reprinted in 1923 in the book Saga of Pecos Bill. Pecos Bill was a late addition to the "big man" idea of characters, such as Paul Bunyan or John Henry. These narratives were invented as short stories in a book by Tex O'Reilly in the early 20th century and are an example of American folklore. Pecos Bill ( / ˈ p eɪ k ə s/ PAY-kəs) is a fictional cowboy and folk hero in stories set during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona. On one of his various adventures, Bill managed to lasso a tornado using a snake
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