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Who Is James Fenimore Cooper's The Last Of The Mohicans

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James Fenimore Cooper, writer of the book The Last of the Mohicans, wrote the novel in 1826. The Last of Mohicans tells the story of English and Native Americans working together towards a rescue mission. Hawkeye, a white man raised by Native Americans, is a famous sharp shooter that works with Native Americans to help a colonel rescue his daughters from a rogue tribe. The Last of the Mohicans starts out with two girls and two men. These girls’ names are Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of Colonel Munro, they are assisted by Major Heyward, of the 60th regiment appointed by the King at Fort William Henry, and Heyward’s Huron navigator, Magua. They are joined by a man named David Gamut, a man who worships by singing Old Testaments psalms, they are traveling toward …show more content…

At this point, our main character Hawkeye comes into the book, with his Mohican companions, Uncas and his father Chingachgook. Our main character runs into the five while riding through the woods because the five said that they’re navigator was lost, immediately he recognizes Magua as a rogue Native American, and Hawkeye injures him while Magua flees. The seven riders go to hide, but Gamut’s mare, that he is riding, has a colt by her side. The colt was making too much noise while they were trying to hide, so Uncas and Chingachgook killed it and got rid of it in the river. Further along into the book the seven arrive at Fort William Henry, Colonel Munro weeps at the sight of his daughters, Cora and Alice, but a few days after arriving Hawkeye was captured by the French. Eventually Hawkeye was released and Colonel Munro went and surrendered to Montcalm, who is a French General that is aligned with the Hurons. While the people of Fort William Henry were leaving the fort they were escorted by the Hurons, that were aligned with General Montcalm, were slaughtered by the them when they became irritated and impatient with the people of Fort William Henry. While the people were being

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