Frontiersmen!

Obviously, Elizabeth Gilbert thinks Eustace Conway is the last American man because he lives in the woods. duh. But what else makes him the last American man you may wonder? Well Gilbert says that Eustace is not only living in nature, but he's also one with it. He thinks, breathes, and has kind of become nature. His ideals are mostly centered around nature and how to survive as the men who lived so long ago in this country when it was new, fresh, and untouched. Eustace is by no means a moder man in the sense that he has not become European. He is totally self sufficient if he wants to be, he has the capability to make, fix, or do anything from his hands, and he gets mostly everything he needs from nature itself. He is not dependant on electronics to get things done, he believes in hard, honest work, and hasn't grased onto the notion that women aren't always going to be submissive. He is still thinking in circles, not in boxes. Eustace doesn't have the sentimental value that a lot of people have now a days, becuse he is still like those first settlers who did anything, and everything that it took to survive. No matter how grotesque or unpleasant, Eustace Conway got what needed to be done regardless. He isn't weak.