Calista's Reviews > Swamp Angel

I have never heard of this story and I wonder if it is a real tall tale, but I sure liked it. I love stories about Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill as American myth. This is Swamp Angel. She is about 50 feet tall and she grew up in the wilds of Tennessee and she helped out the settlers. She is a great epic for girls out there. This is female Paul Bunyon.

There was a bear that was huge and needed to be taken care of as it ate up half of all the people’s stores of food in the state and people were starving. The state ordered a bear hunt and Swamp Angel joined the hunt. They fought all over the state and eventually Swamp Angel does best him. She does end up the winner and living in Montana. It’s a rhyming folk tale with some women power in it.

We had a lot of fun reading this. The nephew loved the fight the two had. He laughed at all the silliness of this story. He loved seeing the bear in the stars and his favorite was when Swamp Angel used a tornado to rope the bear. He gave this 5 stars. The niece thought this was funny to and she enjoyed it. She gave this 4 stars.