Along this track the travelers, who had produced a surprise so unusual in the depths of the forest, advanced slowly toward the hunter, who was in front of his associates, in readiness to receive them. A beaten path, such as those made by the periodical passage of the deer, wound through a little glen at no great distance, and struck the river at the point where the white man and his red companions had posted themselves.
The words were still in the mouth of the scout, when the leader of the party, whose approaching footsteps had caught the vigilant ear of the Indian, came openly into view. “Well go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! The five books span Bumppo’s life, from coming of age through approaching death.The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser. He continued to write about the American frontier in his third book, The Pioneer, which featured backcountry scout Natty Bumppo, known in this book as “Leather-stocking.” The character, representing goodness, purity and simplicity, became tremendously popular, and reappeared, by popular demand, in five more novels, known collectively as the “Leather-stocking Tales.” The second book in the series, The Last of the Mohicans, is still widely read today. The story was set during the American Revolution and featured George Washington as a character. His first novel, Precaution, modeled on Jane Austen, was not successful, but his second, The Spy, influenced by the popular writings of Sir Walter Scott, became a bestseller, making Cooper the first major American novelist.
Having drifted for a decade, Cooper began writing a novel after his wife challenged him to write something better than he was reading at the moment. When Cooper was about 20, his father died, and he became financially independent. Cooper attended Yale but joined the Navy after he was expelled for a prank.
One of the earliest distinctive American novels, the book is the second of the five-novel series called the “Leatherstocking Tales.”Ĭooper was born in 1789 in New Jersey and moved the following year to the frontier in upstate New York, where his father founded frontier-town Coopersville.
On February 4, 1826, The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper is published.
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