American Literature / Unit 6 AML 0513 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Natty Bumppo, the First American Hero
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The idea
Natty Bumppo, based partly on Daniel Boone, is a white woodsman raised among Native people, uneasy in settlements and expert outside them. The witness calls him a gentleman frontiersman and a Jeffersonian natural aristocrat, and names him the first famous frontiersman in American literature.
In practice
A woodsman with a gentleman's honour.
Where people slip
The type recurs for two centuries afterward.
Your place on the trail
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