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Article

Publication Date

1-1-2016

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Excerpt: The mountain man of American folklore and history is a man between cultures. Like Janus, the doorkeeper god of the Romans, he is bifrontal, looking back at European, white civilization, and forward toward Indian civilization and culture.

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This document was published with permission from the journal. It was originally published in the Studies in the Western.

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