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Suddenly the Indian as the superathlete dominated the scene. This concept was soon replaced by the Indian as a show business personality with the rise to popularity of Will Rogers, the Cherokee humorist. In large measure the Indian path to visibility has been paralleled by the Negro. A mythology created to explain Jim Thorpe and Will Rogers was later applied to Joe Louis and Dick Gregory in order to make Negroes comprehensible when they began to appear in American life. After the Indian had been accepted as a humorous, athletic, subspecies of white man, historians and popular writers revisited the past and carved out a role for the Indian that overlooked the centuries of bloodshed between white and red, effectively neutralizing historical betrayals of the Indian by the government.

1. Samuel Eliot M o r i s o n , The O x f o r d H i s t o r y of the American People (New Y o r k O x f o r d University Press, 1 9 6 5 ) , p. 759. in c u u ^ / u f «•' » The Western Hero in the Dime Novel Henry Nash Smith I. THE DIME NOVEL HERO-FROM SETH JONES TO DEADWOOD DICK In 1858 Erastus Beadle, a native of [James Fenimore] Cooper's country near Lake Otsego who had become a successful publisher in Buffalo, moved to New York in order to launch an ambitious project of cheap publishing for a mass audience.

The people only followed a course of action if they were convinced it was best for them. This was as close as most tribes ever got to a formal government. Jt I un In an absolutely democratic social structure like the Indian tribe, formal legal negotiations and contractual arrangements were nearly out of the question. Once a man's word was given it bound him because of his integrity, not because of what he had written on a sheet of paper. Men went to war because they had faith in a leader, not because they were drafted to do so or because they had signed a paper pledging themselves to be hired killers for a set period of time.

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