
The Invention of American Tradition
Revolution and Ideology
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The Great American Wilderness
The grand invented tradition of american nature as a whole is the pristine wilderness. The innoble savage, not agricultural and barely human, was invented to justify dispossession of the indians. Baable te bawen concludes that America was made by puritan saint, yeoman, pioneer frontiersman, sodbuster cowboy and latter day saint,. superhuman, over achieving, self glorifying Americanans.
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