 Slotkin continues on to argue that the violent interactions with Native Americans became central to the myth of the frontier, and the American hero has been one who mediated between these two worlds.The first national hero to do this was Daniel Boone, the first archetype of the western hero, “An American hero is the lover of the spirit of the wilderness, and his acts of love and sacred affirmation are acts of violence against the spirit and her avatars.” This is the foundation for the myth of the frontier that began in the colonies.It was further developed in the nineteenth century to meet the growing needs of industrialization, incorporating the exploitation of land.