Jim: In a message dated 98-02-08 09:18:28 EST, you write: << Twain tried to undermine the romantic vision of the American Indian presented by guys like Hawthorne, for example. >> I think you mean James Fenimore Cooper and not my friend Nathaniel Hawthorne of Salem, Massachusetts. Hawthorne casts an unsentimental eye on everything. Other than that, I'd have to agree with all you said about hippieness. //Alphonse