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James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonial and indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought him fame and fortune.
The following books received a James Fenimore Cooper Prize from The Society of American Historians. For James Fenimore Cooper Prize-winning writers, see Category:James Fenimore Cooper Prize winners .
Novels by James Fenimore Cooper (1 C, 32 P) Pages in category "Works by James Fenimore Cooper" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Films based on works by James Fenimore Cooper (1 C, 3 P) J. James Fenimore Cooper Prize (2 C, 1 P) W. Works by James Fenimore Cooper (1 C, 4 P)
The Monikins is an 1835 novel, written by James Fenimore Cooper. The novel, a beast fable, was written between his composition of two of his more famous novels from the Leatherstocking Tales, The Prairie and The Pathfinder. [1] The critic Christina Starobin compares the novel's plot to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. [1]
They escape the Tetons, and then Ishmael forms an alliance with the Indians. The Indians attempt to recapture the trapper by surrounding them with a prairie fire, but the trapper lights a backfire and saves everyone. They meet up with Hard-heart, a Pawnee Indian who survived the fire wrapped in a buffalo skin, and attempt to escape to his ...
Chingachgook is a major character in Song of the Mohicans by Paul Block (Bantam Books, 1985, ISBN 978-0553565584), a sequel to The Last of the Mohicans. Taking up the story a few days after Uncas' death and burial, it recounts the adventures of Hawkeye and Chingachgook as they travel north to discover the connection between an Oneida brave and ...
In both the TV series and the original Richard Hooker novel on which it is based, it is stated that The Last of the Mohicans is the only book Pierce's father had ever read. Bumppo is known as Dan'l "Hawkeye" Bonner in Sara Donati's novel series, beginning with Into the Wilderness, meant as a sequel to The Leatherstocking books. The series ...