Talk:Pecos Bill

Real person
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fakelore Might be worth consulting

Yeah, but Dorson also claimed that Paul Bunyan was entirely created by a lumber company, but later investigations proved that to be untrue. So, even if Pecos is entirely a literary creation, there is always the possibility he was based on tales told about a real person...Also, this whole "fakelore" distinction seems meaningless to me, folklore is simply a story or stories that are passed along by word of mouth and Pecos Bill stories are still often transmitted that way. Why does the source of the folklore make it "authentic" or not? Also, how do we truly know that the supposedly "authentic" folklore characters didn't originally start out as well-known written stories as well and that fact was simply lost in the sands of time? To me, if people interpet it and use it as folklore the fact that it originally came from a written story is irrelevant. Folklore is an abstract, not a literal reality. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.205.59.37 (talk) 22:22, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Dynamite or Nitroglycerine?
The article states that the legend says that dynamite was his favorite food, but the way I always heard it told was that nitroglycerine was his favorite drink — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.121.6.113 (talk) 03:22, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

more Disney refs?
should this article mention more on the Disney version? (Pecos being responsible for most of Texas' landscape; the Gulf of Mexico, gold in the hills, the Rio Grande, the Painted Desert and the Lone Star of Texas)