Cox William. Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods with a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts

Judd & Detweiler, Inc., 1910. — 52 p.It is a 1910 fantasy field guide by William Thomas Cox (1878–1961), Minnesota’s first State Forester and Commissioner of Conservation, with illustrations by Coert du Bois (1881–1960; US Consul and forester) and Latin classifications by George Bishop Sudworth (1862–1927; Chief Dendrologist of the Forest Service.)[1] The text is a noteworthy resource on folklore, as a century after its initial publication Fearsome Creatures remains one of the principal sources on legendary creatures of the United States and Canada.The book presents various sketches of fearsome critters from North American folklore, with descriptions by Cox preceded by full-page landscape illustrations by du Bois. Like in a traditional field guide, each animal is assigned a Latin classification (by Sudworth), afterward noting their habitat, physical makeup, and behavior. At the end of each account; however, there is usually a brief anecdote detailing an encounter with the creature. Fearsome Creatures may be classified as a work of metafiction.The introduction acknowledges the varmints as, "animals which he [the lumberjack] has originated". Although, given the books mixed field-guide narrative format it is uncertain whether the introduction is within or aside from the primary context. At times the storyteller (identified as Cox himself in the introduction) employs the more ambiguous woodsmen/loggers "tell of" or out comes the "rumor of", but other times declares to the reader that there "ranges" or "is" such a creature.The Hugag
The Gumberoo
The Roperite
The Snoligoster
The Leprocaun
The Funeral Mountain Terrashot
he Slide-Rock Bolter
The Toteroad Shagamaw
The Wapaloosie
The Cactus cat
The Hodag
The Squonk
The Whirling Whimpus
The Argopelter
he Splinter Cat
he Snow Wasset
he Central American Whintosser
Billdad
Tripodero
Hyampom Hog Bear