Whiskey Jack
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Whiskey Jack or Whiskeyjack or Whiskyjack may refer to:
- Wisakedjak, the trickster god in Anishinaabe mythology
- Whiskeyjack, a member of the The Bridgeburners in the fantasy series The Malazan Book of the Fallen
- Whiskeyjack, a common name for the gray jay
- A bottle or hydraulic jack, in which whiskey was sometimes used as the hydraulic fluid.
- A folklore legend of the 19th century American lumbering days. Whiskey Jack was the lumber raftsman equivalent to Paul Bunyan. Lumber raftsman of the era rode rafts made of logs/lumber down rivers to saw mills many miles/days away. Whiskey Jack was said to be the toughest of them all, but always got his load through in the fastest amount of time. Opposite of Paul Bunyan, Whiskey Jack also gambled, drank, womanized, and was a general nuisance to any community he visited. He supposedly could best any man in a brawl due to his size and strength. A collection of Whiskey Jack stories in past print, places Whiskey Jack in towns like Stevens Point, Wisconsin, Dekorra, Wisconsin, and Portage, Wisconsin besides several other upper Midwest lumbering towns of the mid 19th century. When the railroad came to these areas, river pilots were no longer needed, so Whiskey Jack moved westward or north - where river pilots were still in demand.[1]
References
- ↑ Whiskey Jack yarns: short tales of the old time lumber raftsmen of the Wisconsin River and their mythical hero. Charles Edward Brown, Wisconsin Folklore Society - 1940
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