Lincoln has been deified as an American Christ, and enshrined as a frontier hero.

It is the fourth novel Cooper wrote featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, and is considered as forming the third chronological episode of the Leatherstocking Tales.

In the episodes, which once again made Crockett into one of the most popular men in the country, the frontier hero was portrayed wearing a coonskin cap.

Viewed variously as a frontier hero or as a genocidal megalomaniac, Custer has been the subject of an estimated 40 movies and 1,000 books.

They were right there with all the frontier heroes--rifles at their sides, fearing for their lives.

McMurphy stands for the individual, the frontier hero who goes his own way no matter what the rest of society thinks.

They are spoiled rotten, your frontier heroes, and they don't need to exterminate a rare native species 'for recreation.'

His fictitious frontier hero Bumppo is never called by his name, but is instead referred to as "the trapper" or "the old man."

"Frontier remedies for frontier heroes," he said.