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THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, MAY 1, 2021
© 2021 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 37, No. 23
For about as long as folks can remember, cowboys have been
telling tall tales about the greatest cowboy ever known …
Now, you
won’t find
Pecos Bill
in history
books …
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It was said Bill could ride anything. No
horse could throw him. He even rode a
mountain lion once. So when
Bill was the youngest of 17 kids.
When Bill was just a baby, he fell
out of his folks’ wagon out on the
Texas prairie. And, naturally, he
began to cry and howl as the
wagon traveled out of sight. His
howling attracted a pack of
coyotes. They joined in howling
with Bill, but after a few hours,
their voices were gone. They
decided that Bill must be a
coyote at heart, and they
adopted him into their pack.
Find t
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nt.
No, to find out
about ol’ Bill,
you just have to
sit around a
campfire and
listen as someone
tells you the tale.
the biggest cyclone anyone had ever seen
blew into town one day, Pecos Bill jumped
right on it, riding it for days and days. The
cyclone got frustrated and started crying
big, salty tears around Utah. Today that
pool of tears is known as the:
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The cyclone mixed up
the letters. Unscramble
them to reveal the
name of this famous
body of water.
RIVER
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Providing safe passage since 1846
That poor cyclone had
never met a cowboy like
Pecos Bill and after trying
to shake him loose from
Texas to Arizona, it gave
up and decided to turn to
rain. That rain flowed and
flowed and created one
of the wonders of the
natural world: The
Grand Canyon!
During a __________
drought, Pecos Bill
needed to get water to
his _______. There wasn’t
a cloud in the sky, so he
got himself a big ol’ stick
and ___________ it across
the Texas desert to the
Gulf of __________. And
that’s how the _________
called the Rio Grande
was born!
Replace
the missing
words.
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Lots of cowboys know how to make a lasso out
of a rope. But Pecos Bill invented the first lasso
and he did not use a rope. Lasso every other
letter to see what he used.
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Read a variety of genres including tall tales.
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The fun of a tall tale,
like Pecos Bill, is that
the story gets a little taller
and more outrageous
with each telling. Find
a sports story in the
newspaper and start
adding silly, strange and
larger-than-life details to
it to create a new tall tale.
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Widowmaker was no ordinary horse. Instead of apples or
carrots, he used to chomp on this unusual treat that Pecos Bill
gave him. Cross out every other apple to reveal it.
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WIDOWMAKER
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COWBOY
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DROUGHT
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CYCLONE
TEARS
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H O I E C G I B W P
HORSE
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TEXAS
S R O Y C R S B I K
PACK
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WONDERS
WILD
R E K A M W O D I W
HOWL
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RAIN
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Read today’s newspaper and highlight each of
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• One or more exciting verbs
• The shortest sentence you can find
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