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"The second and most famous of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, The Last of the Mohicans (1826) stands as the quintessential American frontier novel. Set in 1757, the novel depicts struggles between Europeans and colonists, Indians and whites, and nature and civilization, chronicling the quests and fates of a now-legendary cast of characters, among them Alice and Cora Munro, daughters of a British colonel; Magua, leader of a group of...
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There are few people for whom the phrase "last of the Mohicans" does not conjure up memories and associations - childhood games, films, TV programs. Yet most who profess acquaintance with Cooper's title actually have never read his book. The characters - Hawkeye and his Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas - owe more to the media than to Cooper's text for their popularity.
But they have become familiar icons identified with the colonizing of the...
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Publisher description: King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific to "deserve the name of a war." It all began when Philip (called Metacom by his own people), the leader of the Wampanoag Indians, led attacks against English towns in...
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