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The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper (1789 - 1851)

Type of Work:

Historical romance

Setting

Upper New York region; 1757

Principal Characters

Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo), a skilled white scout and frontiersman
Chingachgook, Hawkeye's lifelong Mohican (Delaware) friend
Uncas, Chingachgook's son and last heir to the title of chief of the Mohican tribe
Major Duncan Heyward, Hawkeye's Scottish soldier-friend
David Gainut, a psalm singer, and comical, naive, self-proclaimed missionary
Magua (Le Renard Subtil--- "The Sly Fox"), a dis placed and bloodthirsty Canadian Huron Indian
Colonel Munro, defender of British Fort Henry
Alice Munro, fair and innocent daughter of Colonel Munro
Cora Munro, her darker, elder half-sister, and the story's real heroine