cooper james fenimore the last of the mohicans 1826

As they travel, the resourceful Cora takes every opportunity Protector and promises a substantial reward for the safe delivery of the party toįort William Henry.

Two men on foot, Heyward pretends that he has always trusted Magua as their As the Hurons lead their captives away, the women on horseback, the After searching the cave in vain for some time, the Indians locate and capture Hiding Heyward, the now wounded Gamut, and the Munro girls in a cave, Natty, Chingachgook, and Uncas escape (by swimming down the river) to bring help. rendered helpless by the theft of the canoe in which all their ammunition is stored. They repulse the first Indian attack, led by Magua, but are then They retire for the night, David Gamut leads them in singing a psalm of Glens Falls, a position more easily defended than a camp in the woods. Natty's groups move, via canoe, to an island in the turbulent waters at the foot of Natty agrees to guide the four travelers to safety in the morning at night no one could safely pass through the forest filled with predatory Indians. Huron escapes Natty Bumppo is certain that he will soon return with hostile Who apprise Heyward of Magua's deception. In the late afternoon they encounter along the trail Natty BumppoĪnd his two Mohican Indian friends, Chingachgook and the latter's son, Uncas, He promises to take Heyward, Gamut, and the Munro girls toįort William Henry by a route shorter than that to be used by the heavilyĮncumbered contingent of troops, but his real intention is to lead them into an Their Indian guide is Magua, a Huron exiled among the Mohawks,Īllies of the British, but recently reinstated as a chief of the Hurons, who support They are joinedīy David Gamut, a comic, hapless Yankee teacher of sacred music, especially Of Lieutenant Colonel Munro, commander of Fort William Henry. Traveling with the troop movementĪnd personally escorted by Major Duncan Heyward go Cora and Alice, daughters Henry, at the southern tip of Lake George. Into the English colony of New York in 1757, General Webb dispatches 1,500īritish reinforcements from Fort Edward, near Glens Falls, to nearby Fort William As the French and Indian forces under Montcalm press southward from Canada [This is the second of the five Leather-Stocking Tales in relation to plot, and the Return to: Plots & Characters | Cooper's Writings | Home Page NOTE: For this on-line presentation, chapter numbers have been inserted by the webmaster at approximately the point where each chapter begins, to facilitate locating particular plot incidents in the text. Walker, Plots and Characters in the Fiction of James Fenimore Cooper (Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1978), pp. Placed on line with the kind permission of Warren S. (Texas Tech University) The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (1826) In the Fiction of James Fenimore Cooper Warren S.

Cooper james fenimore the last of the mohicans 1826