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* AnAxeToGrind: Unsurprisingly, Paul Bunyan favours a woodcutter's axe.


* ShutUpHannibal: Daniel gives this to Style when he's poised to knock down the last pillar holding up the train tunnel:

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* ShutUpHannibal: Daniel gives this to Style Styles when he's poised to knock down the last pillar holding up the train tunnel:

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* ShutUpHannibal: Daniel gives this to Style when he's poised to knock down the last pillar holding up the train tunnel:
-->'''Styles''': Boy, be reasonable! You know we're gonna win in the end. There'll be others like me. And more after them. And more after ''them.'' As long as there's a profit to be made, we'll never stop. We're coming.
-->'''Daniel''': Not through our land! ::whack::


After his father is shot for refusing to sell the deed to his land in Paradise Valley to an evil coal-mining magnate, Daniel Hackett (Stahl) goes on the run trying to keep the deed from falling into the mining company's hands. He is saved from two outlaws by badass cowboy Pecos Bill (Creator/PatrickSwayze). After explaining the situation, Pecos offers to help Daniel, but not before seeking out the help of his old friend, legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan (Creator/OliverPlatt). The trio heads to [[HilariousInHindsight Liberty City]], where they encounter John Henry (Roger Aaron Brown), the steel-driving man. The group continues to battle their way back to Paradise Valley against the mining company's hired guns. All the way, Daniel learns about courage and what it means to be a real man.

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After his father is shot for refusing to sell the deed to his land in Paradise Valley to an evil coal-mining magnate, Daniel Hackett (Stahl) goes on the run trying to keep the deed from falling into the mining company's hands. He is saved from two outlaws by badass cowboy Pecos Bill (Creator/PatrickSwayze). After explaining the situation, Pecos offers to help Daniel, but not before seeking out the help of his old friend, legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan (Creator/OliverPlatt). The trio heads to [[HilariousInHindsight Liberty City]], where they encounter John Henry (Roger Aaron Brown), (Creator/RogerAaronBrown), the steel-driving man. The group continues to battle their way back to Paradise Valley against the mining company's hired guns. All the way, Daniel learns about courage and what it means to be a real man.


* BadAssBoast: Pecos' introductory (and parting) words. The latter is said while he's ''[[CrazyAwesome lassoing a tornado]].''

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* BadAssBoast: Pecos' introductory (and parting) words. The latter is said while he's ''[[CrazyAwesome ''[[RuleOfCool lassoing a tornado]].''


''Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill'' is a movie produced by Disney in the early nineties. It features Nick Stahl as a young boy in the late 1800s who meets {{folk hero}}es Pecos Bill, Myth/PaulBunyan, and John Henry.

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''Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill'' is a movie produced by Disney in the early nineties. It features Nick Stahl Creator/NickStahl as a young boy in the late 1800s who meets {{folk hero}}es Pecos Bill, Myth/PaulBunyan, and John Henry.


After his father is shot for refusing to sell the deed to his land in Paradise Valley to an evil coal-mining magnate, Daniel Hackett (Stahl) goes on the run trying to keep the deed from falling into the mining company's hands. He is saved from two outlaws by badass cowboy Pecos Bill (Creator/PatrickSwayze). After explaining the situation, Pecos offers to help Daniel, but not before seeking out the help of his old friend, legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan (OliverPlatt). The trio heads to [[HilariousInHindsight Liberty City]], where they encounter John Henry (Roger Aaron Brown), the steel-driving man. The group continues to battle their way back to Paradise Valley against the mining company's hired guns. All the way, Daniel learns about courage and what it means to be a real man.

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After his father is shot for refusing to sell the deed to his land in Paradise Valley to an evil coal-mining magnate, Daniel Hackett (Stahl) goes on the run trying to keep the deed from falling into the mining company's hands. He is saved from two outlaws by badass cowboy Pecos Bill (Creator/PatrickSwayze). After explaining the situation, Pecos offers to help Daniel, but not before seeking out the help of his old friend, legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan (OliverPlatt).(Creator/OliverPlatt). The trio heads to [[HilariousInHindsight Liberty City]], where they encounter John Henry (Roger Aaron Brown), the steel-driving man. The group continues to battle their way back to Paradise Valley against the mining company's hired guns. All the way, Daniel learns about courage and what it means to be a real man.

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* PlotHole: It's never explained how or when Daniel went from [[spoiler: resting with Pecos, Paul, and John Henry after crossing the desert to being right back home in Paradise Valley after his bad dream, in the same place that he was when he went to sleep.]]
* RightHandCat: Stiles is seen a few times petting a hairless sphynx.


* BreakoutRole: For Nick Stahl.


After his father is shot for refusing to sell the deed to his land in Paradise Valley to an evil coal-mining magnate, Daniel Hackett (Stahl) goes on the run trying to keep the deed from falling into the mining company's hands. He is saved from two outlaws by badass cowboy Pecos Bill (Creator/PatrickSwayze). After explaining the situation, Pecos offers to help Daniel, but not before seeking out the help of his old friend, legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan (OliverPlatt). The trio heads to [[HilariousInHindsight Liberty City]], where they encounter John Henry (Roger Aaron Brown), the steel-driving man. The group continues to battle there way back to Paradise Valley against the mining company's hired guns. All the way, Daniel learns about courage and what it means to be a real man.

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After his father is shot for refusing to sell the deed to his land in Paradise Valley to an evil coal-mining magnate, Daniel Hackett (Stahl) goes on the run trying to keep the deed from falling into the mining company's hands. He is saved from two outlaws by badass cowboy Pecos Bill (Creator/PatrickSwayze). After explaining the situation, Pecos offers to help Daniel, but not before seeking out the help of his old friend, legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan (OliverPlatt). The trio heads to [[HilariousInHindsight Liberty City]], where they encounter John Henry (Roger Aaron Brown), the steel-driving man. The group continues to battle there their way back to Paradise Valley against the mining company's hired guns. All the way, Daniel learns about courage and what it means to be a real man.

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* MightyLumberjack: Paul Bunyan is literally the embodiment of this trope.


* AnAxeToGrind: Unsurprisingly, Paul Bunyan favours a woodcutter's axe.



* AnAxeToGrind: True to his legend and his lumberjack origins, Paul Bunyan's WeaponOfChoice is his mighty axe.

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* AnAxeToGrind: True to his legend and his lumberjack origins, Unsurprisingly, Paul Bunyan's WeaponOfChoice is his mighty Bunyan favours a woodcutter's axe.

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* AnAxeToGrind: True to his legend and his lumberjack origins, Paul Bunyan's WeaponOfChoice is his mighty axe.


* GunsAkimbo: Pecos Bill carries a pair of Merwin Hulbert revolvers which he usually dual wields.

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* GunsAkimbo: Pecos Bill carries a pair of Merwin Hulbert revolvers which he usually dual wields. Similarly, Calamity Jane has a pair of Colt revolvers which she exclusively fires in this fashion.

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* BottomlessMagazines: Nobody ever seems to run out of bullets for their six shooters.

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