William T. Cox

Fearsome Creatures of Lumberwoods, with several deserts and Mount Beasts, are a 1910 fantasy field of leadership by William Thomas Cox (1878-1961), Minnesota First State Forester and Conservation Commissioner, with illustrations by Coert Dubois (1881-1960; US Consul and Forester) and Latin Classification according to George Bishop Sadworth (1862-1927; Chief Forest Service Dendrologist) text is a remarkable resource on folklore, as a century after the first publication of formidable creatures remains one of the main sources on the legendary creation of the United States and Canada. The book presents various sketches of formidable creatures from North American folklore, with descriptions by Cox preceded by full-page landscape illustrations by Dubois. As in the traditional field manual, each animal is assigned a Latin classification (according to Sudworth), then noting their habitat, physical composition and behavior. At the end of each account; however, as a rule, a short story details the encounter with the creature. Terrible creatures can be classified as a product of metaprosis. The introduction recognizes the naughty man as "the animals that he [the lumberjack] arose". Although, given the mixed-field books, the format-based narrative manual remains unclear whether the introduction is within or away from the main context. Sometimes the narrator (identified as himself in the introduction of Cox) uses a more ambiguous lumberjack / logger “talking about” or arriving “by ear”, but in other cases the reader is told that “ranges” or “is” such a creature.