[PDF] James Fenimore Cooper - The last of the Mohicans

Did Fenimore Cooper depict Native life in the last of the Mohicans?

Fenimore Cooper’s depiction of native life in The Last of the Mohicans is one of the novel’s enduring legacies in the history of American literature. James Fenimore Cooper was, in many senses, a “pioneering” American writer.

Who wrote the last of the Mohicans?

The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is an historical romance novel written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1826. It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known to contemporary audiences.

What happened in the last of the Mohicans?

DETAIL: The pivotal set piece of The Last of the Mohicans is the massacre at Fort William Henry during the French and Indian War. This is the “factual” event around which Cooper, the first internationally renowned American novelist, builds a compelling tale of wilderness adventure.

Who was James Fenimore Cooper?

James Fenimore Cooper, (born September 15, 1789, Burlington, New Jersey, U.S.—died September 14, 1851, Cooperstown, New York), first major American novelist, author of the novels of frontier adventure known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring the wilderness scout called Natty Bumppo, or Hawkeye.