John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry and perhaps the mighty strength of a man named John Henry. According to legend, with pure strength, stubborn determination and a single hammer, Henry took on ...

Johnson himself will work as a producer and also play steel-driving' man John Henry, who in the famed folk song defeated a steel-powered drill in a race that led to his death. In a Facebook post ...

John Henry is ... another way to say man vs. himself - we do, after all, create the machines - the folklore is as powerful today as it was back in the 1800s when the steel-driving man beat a ...

Alston concluded the story ballad by saying, “But no buckshot would stop the stories and songs to be told throughout this land” about Big John Henry, the steel-driving man and leader of the ...

Dwayne Johnson announced on Instagram that he would be portraying mythical African-American figure John Henry in an upcoming ... My childhood hero. The steel driving man and his disruptive band ...

The Norristown native and Iron Age are teaming up to tell the tale of John Henry, the great steel-driver who raced ... well known as the ultimate tale of man versus machine.

Many might be surprised, however, to discover that John Henry was a real man. In Steel Drivin' Man, his fascinating book of popular history, Scott Reynolds Nelson literally brings this classic ...