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	AllRefer.com - John Henry (Folklore And Mythology) - Encyclopedia
		John Henry, legendary fl American famous for his strength, celebrated in ballads and tales.
		In the most popular version of the story, John Henry tries to outwork a steam drill with only his hammer and steel bit.
		Although he succeeds in beating the machine, he dies of the strain.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/J/JohnHenr.html (191 words)

	John Henry (folklore) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The truth about John Henry is obscured by time and myth, but one legend has it that he was a slave born in Alabama in the 1840s and fought his famous battle with the steam hammer along the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in Talcott, West Virginia.
		The legend of John Henry was the inspiration for the third version of the DC Comics superhero Steel -- also known as John Henry Irons.
		John Henry's visage was used in the 2006 Transformers comic-book series, Evolutions: Hearts of Steel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Henry_(folklore) (1317 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Folklore (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Folklore is the ethnographic concept of the tales, legends, or superstitions current among a particular population, a part of the Oral tradition or oral history of a particular culture.
		The concept of folklore developed as part of the 19th century ideology of romantic nationalism, leading to the reshaping of oral traditions to serve modern ideological goals; only in the 20th century did ethnographers begin to attempt to record folklore objectively.
		In mathematics and some related disciplines, the term folklore is used to refer to any result in a field of study which is widely known by practioners of that field, but considered too trivial or unoriginal to be worth publishing by itself in the research literature.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Folklore (695 words)

	John Henry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Flournoy Henry is a U.S. Representative from Kentucky
		John Henry (Bailiff of Guernsey) (1446–1447), Bailiff of Guernsey
		John Henry (historian) is a historian of science associated with the Strong Programme
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Henry (288 words)

	Mad River Theater Works (Site not responding. Last check: )
		John Henry is saved when the two men hear far-off church bells signaling the arrival of General Sherman’s army.
		John Henry travels to the mountains and learns to be a "steel driver," a worker who hammers steel bits through rock to drill holes for blasting.
		John Henry beats the steam drill, but dies of a broken heart because he knows that the days of men like him are numbered.
	www.madrivertheater.org /john/synopsis.html (583 words)

	American Legends (Myth-Folklore Online)
		John Henry, the "Steel-Drivin' Man," was a truly popular folk hero whose famous contest is attested in popular folksongs dating back to the late 19th century.
		John Henry was a "hammer-man" whose job was to drive a steel drill into the rock, building tunnels through mountains to allow the railroad to pass on through.
		The first recording of a John Henry song is in 1924, by "Fiddlin' John Carson", a white musician from Georgia who was born in 1868.
	mythfolklore.net /3043mythfolklore/reading/bunyanhenry/background.htm (1261 words)

	In Memoriam: Remembering John Henry
		John Henry would have the fans on their feet as he charged down the stretch and that was part of the great racing scene.
		John Henry, I hope I can meet all you great wonderful horses one day, but in the mean time I hope you are running in the great pastures with all your buddies: Ruffian, Secretariat, Barbaro, Lost in the Fog, Mending Fences, Pine Island, St. Liam and all the other horses.
		John Henry proved that "Geldings" need not be retired to be used as "pony rides" but can claim their equine superstar status and be self generating money machines.
	news.bloodhorse.com /JohnHenryMemoriam.asp (20616 words)

	John Henry - Teletraan-1: The Transformers Wiki - a Wikia wiki
		John Henry is a human in the Hearts of Steel portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
		John Henry was a steel-driving man in the 19th century, noted for being one of the best in the country (if not the world).
		Around the year 1867, John Henry's hammering awoke Bumblebee from millenia of stasis lock, and Bumblebee was inspired by him to take the form of a steel-driving locomotive.
	transformers.wikia.com /wiki/John_Henry (442 words)

	John Henry
		The question of whether John Henry and his legendendary feats were fact or merely legend has occupied the time of a great many scholars who have researched, investigated and probed virtually every source of information.
		It is reasonable to assume that the fact John Henry's death is not recorded in the records of Summers County stems from the practice of concealing the death of relatively anonymous negroes and Irishmen who made up the crews at Big Bend.
		Whether John Henry's spirit remains in the Big Bend mountain is debatable, but I am told that it is not wise for one to linger long in the vicinity of the big bore after sundown.
	www.wvculture.org /HiStory/africanamericans/henryjohn03.html (1885 words)

	John Henry - The Story - Alabama
		Cummings stated that John Henry beat the steam drill and died at Oak Mountain in 1887, an event that her uncle witnessed.
		He described how John Henry fell into a faint near the end of the all-day contest on September 20, regained consciousness, said that he was blind and dying, and asked that his wife be summoned.
		Further, he said that John Henry was an ex-slave from Holly Springs, Mississippi; that he took his former master's surname, Dabner; and that he was working for contractors Shea and Dabner when he died.
	www.ibiblio.org /john_henry/alabama.html (882 words)

	Newhouse C1 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		John Garst, a chemistry professor and part-time folklorist, is the author of an upcoming research article linking legendary railroad worker John Henry to people and events centered around the railroad tunnel near Leeds, east of Birmingham, Ala.
		John Garst, a University of Georgia chemistry professor and part-time folklore researcher, recently completed an article linking a man he believes was John Henry with a railroad tunnel near Leeds, just east of Birmingham.
		According to several versions of a popular folk song, John Henry was a fl steel driver, a man employed by the railroad in the late 1800s to drill holes for explosives used to blast railroad tunnels.
	www.newhouse.com /archive/story1c012402.html (756 words)

	"John Henry" Annotated Bibliography
		"John Henry" is one of the best-known American legends (based on real places, people, and events) and tall tales (with superhuman strength attributed to the hero) told in traditional ballads and hammer songs, also retold in prose adaptations.
		John Henry is sometimes a white man, sometimes a worker on the docks instead of the railroads, sometimes almost a saint and sometimes a gambling, womanizing trickster, or both.
		John Henry is an outgoing and flamboyant character, a joker, drinker, fighter, gambler, and womanizer.
	www.ferrum.edu /applit/bibs/tales/JHenry.htm (2282 words)

	John Henry - The Story - The Man
		The story of John Henry, told mostly through ballads and work songs, traveled from coast to coast as the railroads drove west during the 19th Century.
		From what we know, John Henry was born a slave in the 1840s or 1850s in North Carolina or Virginia.
		Or, perhaps it's that John Henry represents to us a man who stayed true, despite living in a time and place where, just like in Big Bend, the roads were blocked and the choices, limited.
	www.ibiblio.org /john_henry/analysis.html (1057 words)

	Bluegrass Messengers
		Lomax believes that John Henry is a descendent of Old John the trickster slave and that the origins of the song springs from the old Hammer song and Lass Of Roch Royal.
		While most folklorists have believed that John Henry was a paid laborer, Nelson knew from his previous research into Southern railroad history that most railroad workers on the C&O line in the 1870s were convicts.
		John Henry told his Captain, "Well, a man ain't nothin' but a man, Aand before I let the steam drill beat me down, I'll die with a hammer in my hand, I'll die with a hammer in my hand." John Henry had a little girl friend, Her name was Polly Ann.
	www.bluegrassmessengers.com /master/johnhenry5.html (3838 words)

	Addington Henry: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Chesterton, G.K.--Criticism and interpretation, Eliot, T.S.--Criticism and interpretation, Furnivall, Frederick James--Criticism and interpretation, Nationalism--Influence, Shakespeare, William--Criticism and interpretation, Symonds, John Addington--Criticism and interpretation
		...of writing." (40) During the reigns of Henry and Elizabeth, "English literature passed...Preface to this textbook was written by Sir Henry Newbolt, the writer of the oft-analyzed...England and the United States includes: Henry Morley, English Writers, an attempt towards...
		HENRY BOSWELL claimed the top title on offer at the 2005 British...close second in the top Young Rider Freestyle class at the Addington Under-21 International in Buckinghamshire, where he took third...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/addington-henry.jsp?l=A&p=1 (1544 words)

	WV Music & Literature-John Henry
		"John Henry," the ballad, tells the story of a steel-driving man who died in his race against the steam drill at the Big Bend Tunnel, near Talcott, West Virginia, on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad around 1870.
		According to legend, a contest was held, and John Henry beat the steam drill by three inches.
		"John Henry" is sung by the prominent folklorist Noel Tenney.
	www.ferrum.edu /applit/studyg/West/htm/henry.htm (230 words)

	American Ghost Stories: Searching For the Real John Henry - Mythology
		Henry was in the works, (far more fitting than leaving only a statue and closed gift shop to honor an icon, I thought).
		I also found out that Polly Ann, mentioned in the song, was murdered soon after John Henry died and that her ghost is also said to haunt the tunnel.
		It was said, though everyone for years believed it to be folklore, that when Henry died all of his spikes, his hammer and other tools used in the contest were buried in the tunnel.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art52471.asp (866 words)

	Mad River Theater Works (Site not responding. Last check: )
		John Henry is a well-known figure of American folklore.
		No one could match his skill or his endurance, until the invention of the steam-powered driver, that is. We remember John Henry for his famous contest with this newfangled machine.
		John Henry realized that ordinary men could not compete with the iron workhorses of the industrial revolution and that the days of men like him were numbered.
	www.madrivertheater.org /john/john.html (201 words)

	John Henry Legend & Ballad: Folklore from West Virginia
		Along came John Henry -- over seven feet tall, some say, and strong as thirty men -- and challenged the steam drill to a race.
		Over a hundred years later, the struggle of John Henry, the steel drivin' man, is still told in legend and ballad.
		As relevant now as ever, this classic of American folklore is a powerful symbol of the conflict between humans and technological progress.
	www.wormlips.com /john_henry/index.html (152 words)

	The George Pal Site: John Henry and the Inky-Poo
		John Henry and the Inky-Poo, the second-to last Puppetoon ever made, is rumored to be a sort of good-willed attempt to make up for the racist stereotypes displayed in the the Jasper series.
		John Henry, according to legend, "was a steel-driving [Black] man," who could hammer railroad spikes faster than anyone, and loved it.
		The moment of John Henry's death is probably the single most powerful moment I've ever seen in all animation -- his mother screams, and one of his friends turns to the camera and declares, "John Henry's dead!".
	www.awn.com /heaven_and_hell/PAL/GP4.htm (537 words)

	John Henry
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		John Henry was a trouble-maker off the track, but a true champ once he was racing.
		Dicourse on the Folklore Hero in culture: eg John Henry.
	www.suite101.com /reference/john_henry (399 words)

	john henry
		They say that on the night John Henry was born there was a terrible storm.
		His mama once told me that on that day he was born, John told her he was ready for some supper and told her he wanted turnip greens, cornbread, ham bones, cabbages, hog jowls, and a jug of molasses.
		Henry went to wake him in the morning she found that he had passed away.
	students.ou.edu /K/Jennifer.N.Kirkwood-1/john_henrystory.html (673 words)

	John Henry A Legend
		John Henry is the legendary -though 'actual'- name of the greatest hammer wielding phenom of labor to have ever emerged upon the golden age of American railroad construction.
		And although John was tough as the steel he hammered, his heart was kind and his soul was of a good man. But without doubt his biggest claim to fame is beating the steam drill in 1872, at the Great Bend tunnel in Talcott WV.
		John Henry: Eassys on the importance of Folklore Hero in modern culture.
	www.geocities.com /cobbr/JH.html (693 words)

	Henry, John - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Profile: Tracing the roots of the song "John Henry" and its enduring appeal
		Buggeswords: Samuel Harsnett and the licensing, suppression and afterlife of Dr. John Hayward's 'The First Part of the Life and Reign of King Henry IV.'
		The Dilemma of Representation in Folklore Studies: The Case of Henry Truvillion and John Lomax.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-HenryJon.asp (206 words)

	NabilaUddin: Legend of John Henry (Site not responding. Last check: )
		John accepted the challenge, and as a result, John had won the race.
		The bet was if John won the race, then the salesperson would give the steam drill to him and if he lost the race, then he would have to buy the machine.
		In Katie's presentation, she mentioned how some websites were not really accurate, since some people say John was either a white or fl man, the area where he grew up in was either West Virginia or Alabama, and finally whether or not John was real or fake.
	blogs.setonhill.edu /NabilaUddin/005614.html (930 words)

	John Henry A Legend
		Another excellent rendition of John Henry is rightfully done by one of the most incomparable vocals of all Folk singers, Odetta.
		Indeed her songs are only as she can sing them, and her John Henry is the perfect ballad; slow in meter at first, then it picks up in pace, as she strums the liner notes on her guitar.
		John Henry and the Inky-Poo, is a 1946 Puppetoon about John Henry and a battle with the steel driving machine called the 'Inky-Poo' (Hum?).
	www.geocities.com /cobbr/JH-Misc.html (2069 words)

	John Henry [Laws I1] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		John Henry, the best driver in the gang, vows he will never be outclassed by the machine.
		Uncle Dave Macon, "The Death of John Henry" (Vocalion 15320, 1926) (Brunswick 112, 1927; Brunswick 80091, n.d.)
		Doc Watson, Gaither Carlton and Arnold Watson, "John Henry" (on WatsonAshley01)
	www.csufresno.edu /folklore/ballads/LI01.html (649 words)

	Origins: John Henry
		Perhaps the best book of that time was Johnson's "John Henry." Several writers have referred to the Negro RR workmen of the late 19th century; one suggested that a prototype could be buried at a VA prison site where a number of railroad workers were buried (all without names attached).
		This is supposed to have been the drill that John Henry was driving when he died, and it is supposed to have been left in position all these years since 1887-88, when he met the steam drill there.
		John Henry's wife, who had cooked for some of the men in the railroad camp, stayed with some of the crew in that capacity when they went to West Virginia to work on the Elkhorn Tunnel, which was also completed in 1888.
	www.mudcat.org /thread.cfm?threadid=4018&messsages=16 (10081 words)

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