James Fenimore Cooper 
The Last of the Mohicans 

In this classic adventure story, frontiersman Natty Bumppo and his Mohican comrades battle hostile Huron warriors in their daring rescue of the kidnapped Munro sisters.  



James Fenimore Cooper’s classic novel
The Last of the Mohicans is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War of 1754-1763. Far and away the most popular volume of Cooper’s
Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy, this is the
thrilling account of a bloody ambush of 500 to 1, 500 Anglo-American troops who had honorably surrendered at Fort William Henry.




The Last of the Mohicans shows the ensuing kidnapping of Colonel Munro’s two daughters, as well as their
daring rescue by frontiersman Natty Bumppo , British soldier Duncan Heyward, and the last two members of the Mohican tribe. Exhilarating and horrifying, this vivid portrayal of life and death on the American frontier is now available with a new introduction.



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About the author

Steven Frye is a Ph.D. graduate of Purdue University and Professor of English at California State University, Bakersfield. He the author of Understanding Cormac Mc Carthy and editor of the 2011 Cambridge Companion to Cormac Mc Carthy.