Other stamps in the set depicted Paul Bunyan, John Henry, and Pecos Bill.

He was known informally as " Pecos Bill ".

During his subsequent service in the Indian Wars, he received his nickname " Pecos Bill ".

* Paul Carlson, " Pecos Bill ", a Military Biography of William R. Shafter.

* Melody Time: Pecos Bill, Widowmaker, Slue Foot Sue, Johnny Appleseed, Johnny's angel, Little Toot, and Big Toot.

Pecos Bill is an American cowboy, apocryphally immortalized in numerous tall tales of the Old West during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona.

Pecos Bill was a late addition to the " big man " idea of characters, such as Paul Bunyan or John Henry.

The first stories were published in 1917 by Edward O ' Reilly for The Century Magazine, and collected and reprinted in 1923 in the book Saga of Pecos Bill ( 1923 ).

One of the most well known versions of the Pecos Bill stories is by James Cloyd Bowman in Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time ( 1937 ) which won the Newbery Honor in 1938, and was republished in 2007.

This was a story about " Pecos Bill ", who had received a " lump on the naggan " that caused him amnesia.

Pecos Bill made the leap to film in the 1948 Disney animated feature Melody Time.

" Pecos Bill " was also the nickname of Civil War general William Shafter, although this was before O ' Reilly created the legend.

According to the legend, Pecos Bill was born in Texas in the 1830s.

Pecos Bill was traveling in a covered wagon as an infant when he fell out unnoticed by the rest of his family near the Pecos River ( thus his nickname ).

His horse Widow-Maker was so named because no other man except Pecos Bill could ride him and live.

On one of his adventures, Pecos Bill managed to lasso a tornado.

Pecos Bill had a love interest named Slue-Foot Sue, who rode a giant catfish down the Rio Grande.

Just like Shake, both Widow-Maker and Slue-Foot Sue are equally as idealized as Pecos Bill.

After a courtship with Slue-Foot Sue in which, among other things, Pecos Bill shoots all the stars from the sky except for one which becomes the Lone Star, Pecos proposes to Sue.

In private life, Miss Garson is Mrs. E. E. Fogelson and on the go most of the time commuting from Dallas, where they maintain an apartment, to their California home in Los Angeles' suburban Bel-Air to their ranch in Pecos, New Mexico.

The type species of its genus, it is native to the Nearctic ecozone, originating in the lower Rio Grande and the Neueces and Pecos Rivers in Texas as well as the central and eastern parts of Mexico and Somalia.

Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge is located a few miles northeast of the city on the Pecos River.

* July 4 – The world's first rodeo is held in Pecos, Texas.

In terms of drainage basin size the Pecos River is the largest.

The climate is generally dry and in spring and summer it is hot ; the hottest daily maximum temperatures in the continental US are often recorded in lower elevation areas near the Pecos River in the county, particularly during the months of April, May and June.

Judge Roy Bean ( 1825 – 1903 ) operated a general store and saloon west of the Pecos River in Langtry, where the original Bean building is displayed at a Texas Tourist Bureau station.

* 1885 Val Verde County is organized from Crockett, Kinney, and Pecos counties.

Its seat is Pecos.

Pecos County is a county located in Texas which is named for the Pecos River.

Pecos County is home to one of the largest oil fields in the United States, the Yates Oil Field, which is in the extreme eastern part of the county, along the Pecos River.

Public education in Pecos County is provided by three Independent School Districts ( ISDs ): Buena Vista, Fort Stockton, and Iraan-Sheffield.

Pecos County is home to the Midland College Williams Regional Technical Training Center ( WRTTC ), located alongside Interstate Highway 10, in Fort Stockton.

The Pecos River is the county's western boundary, forming the Red Bluff Reservoir along its northwestern border with Reeves County, Texas and Eddy County, New Mexico.

The lowest point in the state of New Mexico is located on the Red Bluff Reservoir in Eddy County, where the impounded Pecos River flows out of New Mexico and into Texas.

In 1866, Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving drove vast herds of cattle along the Pecos and set up " cow camps " in Seven Rivers and what is present day Carlsbad.

Structures and other evidence of Ancient Pueblo culture has been found extending east onto the American Great Plains, in areas near the Cimarron and Pecos rivers and in the Galisteo Basin.

The legend of John Henry has been compared to that of other American " Big Men ", such as Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill.

It was part of a set honoring American folk heroes that included Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill and Casey at the Bat.

* Lightning, the horse of the mythical American cowboy Pecos Bill

* Pecos Bill, a mythical American cowboy, immortalized in numerous tall tales

Dorson's examples included the fictional cowboy Pecos Bill, who was presented as a folk hero of the American West but was actually invented by the writer Edward J. O ' Reilly in 1923.

In addition to Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill, Dorson identified the American folk hero Joe Magarac as fakelore.

In the late 1920s, Kidder started the Pecos Conferences for archaeologists and ethnologists working in the American southwest.

As a consequence of The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act ( NAGPRA ), which requires federal and other museum facilities to inventory, establish cultural affiliations, and publish in the Federal Register any and all Native American human remains and certain objects in their possession, the Pueblo of Jemez made a formal claim on behalf of the Pecos people.