![]() He promises to take Heyward, Gamut, and the Munro girls toįort William Henry by a route shorter than that to be used by the heavilyĮncumbered contingent of troops, but his real intention is to lead them into an Their Indian guide is Magua, a Huron exiled among the Mohawks,Īllies of the British, but recently reinstated as a chief of the Hurons, who support They are joinedīy David Gamut, a comic, hapless Yankee teacher of sacred music, especially Of Lieutenant Colonel Munro, commander of Fort William Henry. Traveling with the troop movementĪnd personally escorted by Major Duncan Heyward go Cora and Alice, daughters Henry, at the southern tip of Lake George. Into the English colony of New York in 1757, General Webb dispatches 1,500īritish reinforcements from Fort Edward, near Glens Falls, to nearby Fort William As the French and Indian forces under Montcalm press southward from Canada [This is the second of the five Leather-Stocking Tales in relation to plot, and the Return to: Plots & Characters | Cooper's Writings | Home Page ![]() NOTE: For this on-line presentation, chapter numbers have been inserted by the webmaster at approximately the point where each chapter begins, to facilitate locating particular plot incidents in the text. Walker, Plots and Characters in the Fiction of James Fenimore Cooper (Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1978), pp. Placed on line with the kind permission of Warren S. (Texas Tech University) The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (1826) ![]() ![]() In the Fiction of James Fenimore Cooper Warren S. ![]()
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