It appears in writing in 1899 among a collection of stories told by Adirondack guides entitled In The Land of the Loon, by Frank Kimball Scribner and Earl Williams Mayo.
[3] Likewise, the name reappears in the periodical The Echo of Seneca, published annually by the junior class of Hobart College, in Geneva, New York, referencing the location of a banquet held in 1893.
[1] The pamphlet "Paul Bunyan Natural History" was created by Brown with source material derived from original interviews conducted among veteran loggers in the Great Lakes.
[5] Later, George Shepard Chappell, under the pseudonym Walter E. Traprock, in his 1921 travel guide parody The Cruise of Kawa Wandering in the South Seas describes the fatu-liva.
The fatu-liva live in the, nonexistent, Filbert Islands and lay square eggs resulting in a "piercing screech of pain ending in a long yowl of joy."