Translations:Montana, 2008 (article)/41/en
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Instead, Americans quickly embalmed the idea of the frontier with enormous symbolic power and, in doing so, helped to bring the noble savage into vogue, first as a way to torment the nation’s conscience – as in the hands of Helen Hunt Jackson or Sarah Winnemucca and, subsequently, as an inspirational image and primitivist antidote, as in the hands of Mabel Dodge Luhan and Ernest Thompson Seton.
