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The Last of the Mohicans, first published in 1826, is the most famous of Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Set in 1757, it describes the adventures of Deerslayer, now called Hawkeye, during the French and Indian wars. Hawkeye roams again in upper New York state with Chingachgook and also with Uncas, Chingachgook’s son. The story contains the familiar mix of battle, pursuit, capture, and escape, and a dramatic massacre of an English garrison by Indians.
Sir Walter Scott’s historical romance, Ivanhoe (1819), is set in medieval England. Ivanhoe, the great chivalrous...
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