And although no period or place in American history has been more absurdly romanticized, myth and reality did join hands in at least one arena, the conflict between the individual and encroaching civilization.
雖然在美國歷史上沒有任何時期或地區像西部拓荒時期那樣被荒謬地浪漫主義化了,但神話和事實至少在某一個舞臺上共存,也就是存在于個人與漸漸闖入的文明這兩者的沖突之中。