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COLONIES - Mythmaking and American Revolutionary Frontier Legacy — Part Two - ROBERT-PARKINSON-
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1793 Robert G. Parkinson, author of Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier, traces how Michael Cresap was transformed into a Revolutionary War hero and how Thomas Jefferson popularized “Logan’s Lament” in Notes on the State of Virginia. Parkinson details Logan’s murder in 1780, the lament’s place in 19th-century schoolbooks and monument battles, and how Revolutionary mythmaking justified Indian removal while shaping enduring themes of American national identity across the expanding early republic. (7)