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Myths and legends do not die easily.
But they’ve laid a paved road along the path where John Wayne’s horse went lame and he was forced to accept a ride on a stagecoach bound for the New Mexico Territories. They’ve dropped a parking lot on the route Henry Fonda followed on his way to meet Wayne at Fort Apache. They’ve put sidewalks—sidewalks—over the dirt where Wayne led a cavalry troop, tracking marauding Cheyenne and Arapaho braves. And now there’s a stop sign right on the path Wayne followed in pursuit of the Comanches who’d kidnapped his niece.
Parents park their SUVs—the tires of which have never left a paved surface—and take their children by the hand and stand on the sidewalk and tell them “This is America; this is John Wayne country.” The children wonder who John Wayne is and why their parents made them get out of the air-conditioned car just to look at some lame-ass landscape right when their favorite part of the DVD was starting—the Na’vi of Pandora were about to help Jake bond with a Banshee!
Myths and legends don’t die easily—but given enough time and enough pavement, they can be replaced.
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