Robert Bordner

    He's best known as a "creator of fantastic folklore, developing stories on the Peninsula Pythin, Richfield Bobcat, Phantom Horse and Hinckley Ridge Buzzards.
  1. 1960-12-27 Good afternoon — Reading matter Akron Beacon Journal, Night Final (Akron, OH), p. 17

    Among his many accomplishments while on the Press staff were the stories he wrote about the Peninsula Python, the Richfield Bobcat and the Phantom Horse. He revived these yarns from time to time, writing with such a classic balance of truth and fiction that his readers never knew what to believe.
  2. 1973-10-17 Robert Bordner dies; Press reporter, editor The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH), p. 4E

    He helped establish the python, the Richfield bobcat, a phantom horse and the Hinckley buzzards in Ohio folklore.
  3. 1973-10-17 Robert Bordner, 74, writer extraordinary Akron Beacon Journal, (Akron, OH), p. H2

    Hinckley Ridge Buzzards

  4. 1958-03-13 Make plans for Buzzards return Sandusky Register (Sandusky, OH), p. 2
  5. 1958-10-30 Hinckley Ridge Buzzards make last '58 stand Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum (Bucyrus, OH), p. 7
  6. 1958-10-30 Buzzards convene near Medina for trek to southland The Daily Times (New Philadelphia, OH), p. 5
  7. 1958-10-30 Hinckley Ridge Buzzards set to go The Lima Citizen (Lima, OH), p. 14
  8. 1960-03-03 Buzzard buffs are in a tizzy Akron Beacon Journal, Night Final (Akron, OH), p. 31

    Phantom Horse

  9. 1958-06-17 Phantom Horse is arousing anger of Ohio farmers The Coshocton Tribune (Coshocton, OH), p. 10
  10. 1958-06-01 Peninsula now hunts Phantom Horse Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, OH), p. 15B
  11. 1958-10-02 ‘Phantom’ Horse caugh The Sidney Daily News (Sidney, OH), p. 10B
  12. 1959-05-13 Valley's 'Phantom' Horse now tamed Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, OH), p. 33

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