![]() ![]() ![]() The whole American feeling takes pride in such a man, as the author of The Last of the Mohicans." In tribute to his friend Cooper shortly before the novelist's death, George Copway, the Chippewa chief Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bowh, wrote: "No living writer, nor historian, has done so much justice to the noble traits of our people. It speaks with compassion of racial injustice and prejudice, especially of the dispossession of the Indian. Irradiated by an elusive irony that gives epic scope to the American colonial experience, it projects on a broad canvas the futile efforts of European armies to wrest a glorious wilderness from the Indians and each other. Celebrated for almost 150 years as the prototype of the American adventure story, The Last of the Mohicans remains a perennial favorite, an astonishingly complex work to be read on many levels. ![]()
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