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Table of Contents FROM THE PAGES OF THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS Few men - photo 1

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FROM THE PAGES OF THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS

Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so express it, greater antithesis of character, than the native warrior of North America. In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruthless, self-denying, and self-devoted; in peace, just, generous, hospitable, revengeful, superstitious, modest, and commonly chaste. (page xxvii)

It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet. (page 3)

The eye of the hunter, or scout, whichever he might be, was small, quick, keen, and restless, roving while he spoke, on every side of him, as if in quest of game, or distrusting the sudden approach of some lurking enemy. (page 22)

An Indian is a mortal to be felt afore he is seen. (page 45)

A dark hand and glancing knife appeared before him; the Indian released his hold, as the blood flowed freely from around the severed tendons of the wrist; and while Duncan was drawn backward by the saving arm of Uncas, his charmed eyes were still riveted on the fierce and disappointed countenance of his foe, who fell sullenly and disappointed down the irrecoverable precipice. (page 68)

The memory of an Indian is longer than the arm of the pale-faces; his mercy shorter than their justice! (page 108)

Natur is sadly abused by man, when he once gets the mastery. (page 122)

Revenge is an Indian feeling. (page 187)

Grass is a treacherous carpet for a flying party to tread on, but wood and stone take no print from a moccasin. (page 207)

Reason and calculation are often outdone by accident. (page 264)

It is true, my young men did not go out on the war-path; they had dreams for not doing so. But they love and venerate the great white chief. (page 300)

The pale-faces are masters of the earth, and the time of the redmen has not yet come again. My day has been too long. In the morning I saw the sons of Unamis happy and strong; and yet, before the night has come, have I lived to see the last warrior of the wise race of the Mohicans. (pages 363364)

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER James Fenimore Cooper was born September 15 1789 in - photo 2

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER

James Fenimore Cooper was born September 15, 1789, in Burlington, New Jersey, to William Cooper and Elizabeth Fenimore Cooper. In 1790 the family moved to the frontier country of upstate New York, where William had established a village he called Cooperstown. Although cushioned by wealth and Williams position as a judge, the Coopers found pioneer life to be rugged, and only seven of the thirteen Cooper children survived their early years. Profoundly affected by the challenges of frontier living, James would repeatedly draw on his childhood experience in The Pioneers and many of his other novels.

Cooper was educated by private tutors at Yale, where he enrolled in 1803; he was expelled in 1805 after setting off an explosion that blew off another students dormitory door. As a midshipman in the U.S. Navy, he served at an isolated post on Lake Ontario and in a relatively leisurely assignment in New York City, where he met his future wife, Susan Augusta DeLancey, daughter of a wealthy family. In 1811 he resigned his commission to marry her.

According to family lore, Cooper fell into writing on a dare: One evening he threw down a novel in disgust, saying he could write a better book himself; when Susan challenged him and reminded him that he could barely stand to write a letter, Cooper wrote his first novel, Precaution, published in 1820. Encouraged by favorable reviews, Cooper wrote other books in quick succession and was soon regarded as a major voice in Americas emerging literary tradition. He eventually published thirty-two novels and was the first American to make a living as a professional novelist. Natty Bumppo, who appears in Last of the Mohicans and the four other Leatherstocking Tales that Cooper published between 1823 and 1841, became one of Americas favorite fictional heroes. Cooper and his family lived in Europe for seven years but returned to America in 1833. Eventually settling in Cooperstown, Cooper remained on the American literary scene as a prolific writer of political tracts, naval histories, and works of fiction. He died in Cooperstown on September 14, 1851.

THE WORLD OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER AND THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS

1789	The twelfth of thirteen children, James Cooper is born on Septem ber 15 to Judge William Cooper and Elizabeth Fenimore Cooper in Burlington, New Jersey. George Washington is inaugurated presi dent of the United States.
1790	The Coopers move to the frontier country of upstate New York, where William had founded Cooperstown a few years earlier. In his later novels, James will repeatedly draw on the rigors of his early frontier experiences.
1803	James Fenimore Cooper enters Yale.
1805	He is expelled from Yale for blowing off a fellow students door with gunpowder.
1806	Cooper works as a sailor on the Stirling, a merchant vessel. His trav els take him to Spain and England.
1808	Cooper joins the Navy, making Atlantic passages and serving at an isolated post on Lake Ontario.
1811	Cooper marries Susan Augusta De Lancey, the daughter of a wealthy family in Westchester County, New York. The couple, plagued by fi nancial troubles for the next several years, moves to various towns in New York State before buying a country home near Scarsdale, where they settle with their seven children.
1812	The United States declares war on Great Britain.
1814	British troops set fire to Washington, D.C. Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner.
1819	Washington Irvings tale Rip Van Winkle appears.
1820	After accepting a challenge from his wife to write a book, Cooper pens Precaution, a novel of manners. The Missouri Compromise draws the line between free states and slave states.
1821	The Spy, a historical romance set during the American Revolution, is published, establishing Cooper as a major literary figure.
1823	Cooper publishes The Pioneers, the first of the five Leatherstocking Tales, which are set in the 1700s, both before and after the Amer ican Revolution, and tell the life of hunter, trapper, and scout Natty
Bumppo, known as Leatherstocking; the books follow Natty through various periods of his life, but not in chronological order.
1826	The Last of the Mohicans, the second Leatherstocking Tale, is published; Natty aligns himself with Uncas, the Indian of the title, and works as a scout in the British army. The Cooper family moves to Europe, and resides in Paris, Switzerland, Belgium, and England for the next seven years.
1827	The Prairie, the third novel in the Leatherstocking series, is pub lished ; Natty Bumppo dies among the Indians west of the Missis sippi, where he has been driven by the advancing line of pioneers.
1829	Cooper publishes Notions of the Americans, a reflection on his native land and one of six books he writes while living abroad.
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