The pioneer and the cowboy are part of the national mythology.

On the one hand, our national mythology proclaims this country to be the land of opportunity.

Creating a new national mythology will not be easy.

Those are tough words in a country where hockey is at the core of the national mythology and identity.

That is a worthy and attractive idea, one deeply embedded in American national mythology.

So too were the Proms, that annual display of our national mythology.

And for its national mythology, which is based partly on historical fact.

Times Square's history as the heart of America's 20th-century cultural experience has given it a central role in our national mythology.

Its heroic stories have become part of the national mythology.

Some suggest that without a national mythology or ideology, geography is a more binding force than history.