James Fenimore Cooper
1789–1851
Biography
James Fenimore Cooper was an American novelist, born on 15 September 1789 and died on 14 September 1851. He spent much of his boyhood in Cooperstown, New York, a town his father William had founded on land he owned, and he returned there for the last fifteen years of his life. He attended Yale for three years and then went to sea, first on a merchant voyage and then as a midshipman in the United States Navy. The years at sea gave him a practical knowledge of sailing ships that he later put to use in his naval stories. His breakthrough came with The Spy (1821), an espionage tale set during the American Revolution.
His lasting fame rests on the Leatherstocking Tales, five historical novels written between 1823 and 1841. They follow Natty Bumppo, a frontier scout who became one of the most recognisable figures in American fiction, through the forests and wars of the colonial and early American frontier. The Last of the Mohicans (1826), the second of the five to appear, is often ranked as his finest achievement. He also wrote naval fiction and a wide range of social, political and historical books. He hoped his writing would push back against the low opinion of America held in Europe and help build a home-grown American literature and culture.
The site holds The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757. The story is set during the French and Indian War in the colonial wilderness of New York. It follows Natty Bumppo, here called Hawkeye, with the Mohican Chingachgook and his son Uncas, as they try to protect two colonial sisters on a journey through hostile country. It is a natural first stop for a new reader of Cooper.
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Books
The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757
by James Fenimore Cooper
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is an 1826 historical romance novel by James Fenimore Cooper. It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known to contemporary audiences. The Pathfinder, published 14 years later in 1840, is its sequel…
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