A sub-set of folklore is the folk character, figures like Paul Bunyan, Mike Fink and a fellow with Texas roots, Pecos Bill.
Baby Boomers will recall that Uncle Walt Disney turned Pecos Bill into a cartoon character, but Ole Bill’s older than that mouse in Disney’s first successful animation, Steamboat Willie. Later the character became a bit better known…
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