Exam 41: Daniel Boone: Building the Myth Around the Man, Richard Slotkin

In Slotkin's view, Filson's version of the Daniel Boone myth represents the tension described by Levi-Strauss between two conflicting forces: ______________ and ______________.

Slotkin says that because Filson wanted to mythologize _________________, he had to present a story that would allow the audience to identify with the hero and his work.

The early European settlers called _____________ saw themselves as "children of Jehovah" whose destiny was to bring Christian civilization to the wilderness.

Because he __________________, Filson's Daniel Boone can be compared with Romulus, Cyrus, and Sargon.

Support for Filson's Boone narrative relied on the view that Indians __________________________________.

It is thought that Filson did not include the ___________________ in his biography of Daniel Boone because the idea was alien to his European audience.

Victor Turner's concept of __________________ can help us understand how Boone's first excursion deep into the wilderness fits into the mythological aspect of the story.

The Filson narrative is actually a ________________, not a folk legend.

"The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon" is a chapter in a larger book called Discovery, Settlement and Present State of ________________.

As a hero, Boone represented the idea of the French philosopher ________________ that nature is a better teacher than civilization.

One reason Daniel Boone knew so many Indian ways is that he had been adopted by the _____________________ tribe and lived with them for a while.

Myths are true stories because they _______________________.

The stories that the early European settlers told about their settling in America __________________________.

Filson refers to _____________as "the first white woman to stand beside the Kentucky river."

____________________ helped to shape the way that Americans tell the story of the founding of their nation in his Leatherstocking Tales.

Although Daniel Boone's exploits were often violent, colonists accepted them because ___________________.

For the Puritans, the ___________________ was "the realm of chaos . . . somehow outside the world protected by God."

Because her husband was away from home so long, Rebecca Boone can be compared to _____________, Odysseus' wife.

Filson's portrait of Rebecca Boone does NOT emphasize __________________________________________.

In order to mythologize Daniel Boone, Filson carefully altered facts so he would fit into the necessary mold of hunter-_________________-philosopher.