Daniel Herman noted the complexity of the culture of nineteenth-century America as it yielded two heroes--the hunter and the _______________. The two had similarities and considerable differences. The hunters who ventured into areas on the edge of the frontier or in areas already surrounded by domestication "identified themselves with the wilderness rather than the cultivated field. Like Boone, or Crockett, or knights of old, hunters took command of nature--and the continent--not by clearing and plowing but by doing noble battle with wild beast."

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