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The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper

On the coverScene from "The Last of the Mohicans," Cora Kneeling at the Feet of Tamenund, Thomas Cole, 1827

The Last of the Mohicans

1826 · United States · Novel · ~400 pages

During the French and Indian War, the scout Hawkeye and his Mohican companions Chingachgook and Uncas guide two sisters through a wilderness of ambush and betrayal. The most famous of the frontier romances that gave America a founding myth.

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Why read it

A sweeping, breathless frontier adventure of chase and rescue through primeval forest, and the romantic origin of the American wilderness myth. Thrilling and elegiac at once.

Themes
SettingColonial New York, 1757

The forests of colonial New York in the 1750s, contested by French, British, and Native nations, where empires and whole peoples clashed among the trees.

About the author

James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) created the American adventure novel with his Leatherstocking Tales, of which this is the best loved.