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Otis T. Howd

Best known for co-authoring a lively collection of Paul Bunyan tales, this writer helped preserve the humor and swagger of North Woods logging folklore. Very little biographical information survives, which gives the work an old-time, archival charm of its own.

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Paul Bunyan and His Loggers

Paul Bunyan and His Loggers

by Otis T. Howd, Cloice R. Howd

About the author

Otis T. Howd is known today chiefly as the co-author, with Cloice R. Howd, of Paul Bunyan and His Loggers. The book gathers stories about the giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan and the camp culture that shaped those legends, helping keep a vivid piece of American folklore in circulation.

Reliable public information about Howd's life appears to be scarce. The sources I found consistently connect the name to Paul Bunyan and His Loggers, including library-style records and Project Gutenberg listings, but they do not provide a fuller personal biography such as birth dates, hometown, or career details.

That makes Howd one of those authors who is remembered mainly through the work itself. For readers, that work still offers a window into the exaggeration, wit, and rough-edged storytelling traditions of the logging camps where the Paul Bunyan myth took shape.