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Use your selected note taking tools to record your findings as you explore the resources provided below.
Use your selected note taking tools to record your findings as you explore the resources provided below.
Read and review all resources provided below before completing your notes.
Answer the following prompts as you record:
What aspects and devices of language are frequently used in Cox's descriptions of the critters?
Record examples of how a fearsome critter reflects specific challenges or characteristics of a logging landscape.
Are these critters scary or funny? In what ways is the contrast between horror and comedy bridged in the written descriptions and visual representation of the critters?
Fearsome Critters of the Lumberwoods: With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts (1910)
Fearsome Critters of the Lumberwoods: With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts (1910)
Exerpts from a 1910 text by William T. Cox recalling folk tales describing four Fearsome Critters: the Hugag, the Gumberoo, the Slide-Rock Bolter, and the Wapaloosie.
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