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Column: A brief Bemidji investigation into Babe's signature blue hue
BEMIDJI — In downtown Bemidji, a statue of a giant blue ox has stood alongside an even taller lumberjack for more than 80 years. By tall tale reckoning, Paul Bunyan found the ox calf in a snowbank, and under Paul’s care, he grew to be an ox of gigantic …