History: Tall Tale Postcards

- Iron John of Michigan. Also a hero, with incredible powers, of the German folk tale Iron John
- Calamity Jane – A tough Wild West woman §
- Casey Jones – A brave and gritty railroad engineer §
- Johnny Kaw, a fictional Kansan whose mythological status itself was in one sense a figment, in that it was created recently, in 1955. Adherents of this assessment deem such stories fakelore