tall tales

Febold Feboldson

By : Darcy, Tyanna , and Austen

Background information

Febold Feboldson was invented by a Nebraska lumber dealer named Wayne Carroll. Febold thought he would die of loneliness because all his neighbors on the great plains were moving to California to look for gold.

Challenges

He wanted people to stay in the Great Plains instead of moving to California.

He was against nature because it wouldn’t rain.

Trait # 1-recourceful

He told people how to get their fence posts in the ground

He told the pioneers how to fight prarie weather like dust storms and tornadoes

Trait # 2-cleverHe thought of evaporating the lake

He knew to get frogs to make noise to get rain

Trait # 3-Determined

He didn’t give up when the pioneers wanted to leave because there was no rain

He kept going when the pioneers wanted to leave because they couldn’t see

Exaggerations

He hypnotized a frog

He evaporated a lake with a bonfire

He cut fog into strips with scissors

A strip of fog scared away the clouds

Settings

Lived on the great plains

Only one lake for miles

Very hard ground