When Paul Bunyan was first starting on the job, he got in a fight and accidentally knocked down all the trees in the Dakotas. Later, he ,begin underline, purposely, end underline, flattened Kansas so the land would be better for planting corn. Paul's gigantic blue ox, Babe, used Lake Superior as a watering trough. All over the northern United States, ,begin underline, legends, end underline, and tall tales about Paul Bunyan's feats are ,begin underline, recounted, end underline, by campfire storytellers and retired lumberjacks.