No matter how much we tell you about the miracle heroes and the miracles they performed, we will never tell you everything. Well, no wonder. The country of America is such a big country, and something unprecedented is always happening somewhere.
For example, we didn’t have time to talk about famous, unique women. Take, for example, Paul Bunyan's great-niece, who now lives in Texas. To stay in shape, she starts every morning by jogging along barbed wire. Barefoot. With a wild cat under his arm.
Or Annie Christmas. For many years, Annie ruled and controlled everything in the lower reaches of the Mississippi. This was back in the days when people sailed on flatboats, and there were no traces of steamships. They say that Annie did not give anyone permission and, at the slightest, got into a fight.
We don’t know if it’s true or not, but it’s as if she survived Mike Fink himself from Louisiana. Although it's hard to believe, Mike Fink would never get involved with a woman, much less fight, even with a giantess like Annie Christmas.
Annie was seven feet tall and weighed nearly three hundred pounds. God knows where the curious came from to look at her. Annie was very proud of this. She picked up one bag of flour under one hand, the other under the other, and carried the third on her head. What a strongwoman Annie Christmas was!
One day Annie was in a hurry. She was returning from New Orleans on her flat-bottomed sailboat - a keelboat - upstream. The team tried their best. These were great guys - half crocodiles, half horses, like everyone else who served on the river at that time. But Annie was hard to please.
She wanted it faster and even faster. She grabbed a long rope, tied one end to the mast, and with the other pulled the keelboat up the river along
along the shore. She pulled the keelboat with such force that it did not float, but actually flew.
And yet, although Annie coped well with all matters herself, it became much easier for her when she got married and gave birth to assistants. First, she gave birth to two quintuplets in a row, and then twins. And all her twelve boys grew a foot in a year, so that by the time they were seven, each of them was as tall as her.
Over time, her twelve giants became too crowded in Mississippi. Luckily, they heard about Texas and all went there. In Texas, everyone got a Texas longhorn cow for breakfast.
By now, the long-horned Texans have all died out, but the Texas guys remain the tallest and strongest on American soil. They are all descendants of Annie Christmas and her twelve sons.
By the way, it recently became known that one of Annie Christmas’s sons was the father of Pecos Bill. That's how it is!
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru