James Fenimore Cooper · 1826
Hawkeye, Uncas and the Munro sisters in the French and Indian War. Read The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper page by page and explore its network…
It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide and apparently an impervious boundary of forests severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict. But, emulating the…
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