James Fenimore Cooper

The Last Mohican James Fenimore Cooper

Without any doubt The Last of the Mohicans is James Fenimore Cooper's best known and most widely read work. Set at the time of the struggles between Great Britain and France for control of North America, The Last of the Mohicans is a novel whose historical framework is especially correct even in the most minor details. Set in the territory of the Great Lakes, the plot of the novel unfolds in 1757 when a group consisting of Alicia and Cora Munro, daughters of Colonel Munro, Major Duncan Heyward, an Indian guide named Magua and David Gamut, a music teacher, leaves the British fort. Edward on the way to the William Henry. During their journey they meet Hawkeye or Hawkeye and his two Indian friends Chingachguk and their son Uncas, the last of the Mohicans. After passing various incidents, the party manages to reach Fort William Henry, which is under siege by the Frenchman Montcalm. Munro is forced to surrender, but despite French guarantees at the time of capitulation, the ferrets attack the defenseless British, unleashing a carnage. Magua, who has proven to be a traitor, captures Alicia and Cora and Hawkeye, her Indian friends Heyward and Munro will go in search of her.