Jennifer Kleinjung has a Master’s degree in Library and Information Sciences from Florida State University. As a former reference librarian at the Minnesota Historical Society, she has published research guides on taconite mining, school records research, and Split Rock Lighthouse. She has also written articles for MNopedia concerning the land, labor, and lore (particularly as captured by large statues) of northeastern Minnesota. Now, her research as an independent librarian focuses on the intersecting history of the AIDS crisis and the Catholic Church in Minnesota.
Dr. Kasey Keeler (Tuolumne Me-Wuk and Citizen Potawatomi) is a professor at University of Wisconsin, Madison for Civil Society & Community Studies at the School of Human Ecology and American Indian & Indigenous Studies.
Her studies focus on American Studies, with an emphasis on American Indian Studies. Her book, American Indians and the American Dream, examines the intersection of federal Indian policy and federal housing policy.
Her research interests and expertise span federal Indian policy, land and dispossession, American Indian (sub)urbanization, off-reservation Indians, American Indian housing, land and memory, placemaking, and 20th- and 21st-century Indians.
She is currently working on a project that centers Paul Bunyan narratives in American Indian dispossession and logging across the Great Lakes.
Ames, Carleton C. “Paul Bunyan: Myth or Hoax?” Minnesota History 21, no. 1 (1940): 55–58. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20162372.
Folklore pamphlets of Charles E. Brown, 1921–1945. Pamphlets Collection. Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison. https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/tp/id/38931.
Minneapolis Star Tribune photographs arranged by subject. Box 145. Folder “Bemidji, undated, 1937–1969.” Photographs Collection. Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul. http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/sv000150e.xml
Paul Bunyan Collection. Children’s Literature Research Collections, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/4/resources/5795.
1837 Land Cession Treaties with the Ojibwe and Dakota, Why Treaties Matter, https://treatiesmatter.org/treaties/land/1837-ojibwe-dakota.
Blegen, Theodore C. “With Ax and Saw: A History of Lumbering in Minnesota.” Forest History Newsletter 7, no. 3 (1963): 2–13. https://doi.org/10.2307/3982846.
Gregory, Rick. “The Power of Story.” In The Bell Witch in Myth and Memory: From Local Legend to International Folktale, 1–24. The University of Tennessee Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.13083326.5.3
Gross, Lawrence W. “Cultural Sovereignty and Native American Hermeneutics in the Interpretation of the Sacred Stories of the Anishinaabe.” Wíčazo Ša Review 18, no. 2 (Autumn 2003): 127–134.
Harris, Moira F. “Echoes from the Woods: Legacies of Logging in Minnesota.” Minnesota History 63, no. 5 (Spring 2013): 203–212.
https://storage.googleapis.com/mnhs-org-support/mn_history_articles/63/v63i05p203-p212.pdf
Harty, John Patrick. “Legendary Landscapes: A Cultural Geography of the Paul Bunyan and Blue Ox Phenomena of the North Woods.” PhD thesis, Kansas State University, 2007.
Hess, Jeffrey A. “Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox.” National Register of Historic Places nomination file (#88000204), March 1988. State Historic Preservation Office, St. Paul.
https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/88000204
Hess, Stephanie. “Lumber Industry in Minnesota.” Minnesota Digital Library. https://mndigital.org/projects/primary-source-sets/lumber-industry-minnesota
Karamanski, Theodore J. “Settler Colonial Strategies and Indigenous Resistance on the Great Lakes Lumber Frontier.” Middle West Review, vol. 2, no. 2, 2016, pp. 27–51, https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2016.0007.
Keeler, Kasey. "Paul Bunyan (folklore character)." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnopedia.org/person/paul-bunyan.
Keeler, Kasey, and Ryan Hellenbrand. “Paul Bunyan and Settler Nostalgia in the Northwoods.” Edge Effects, December 2, 2021.
https://edgeeffects.net/paul-bunyan-narratives
Kleinjung, Jennifer. "Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox statues, Bemidji." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnopedia.org/thing/paul-bunyan-and-babe-blue-ox-statues-bemidji.
Marling, Karal Ann. The Colossus of Roads: Myth and Symbol along the American Highway. New Edition. University of Minnesota Press, 1984. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttskrt.
McKeig, Cecelia. "Fireplace of States." MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnopedia.org/thing/fireplace-states.
McMahon, Eileen M. and Theodore J. Karamanski. North Woods River: The St. Croix in Upper Midwest History. University of Wisconsin, 2009.
Satz, Ronald N. “The 1837 Pine Tree Treaty.” In Chippewa Treaty Rights: The Reserved Rights of Wisconsin’s Chippewa Indians in Historical Perspective. 13-31. Wisconsin Academy of Sciences Arts and Letters, 1991.