The Last of the Mohicans

6W James Fenimore Cooper. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1950. 

Notes

The Last of the Mohicans, first published in 1826 as the second and most celebrated entry in James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, is a foundational classic of American literature that dramatized the violent cultural collisions of the French and Indian War. Set in the dense wilderness of upstate New York in 1757, the narrative follows the rugged frontier scout Natty Bumppo (Hawkeye) and his noble Native American companions, Chingachgook and his son Uncas, as they attempt to rescue the daughters of a British colonel from a vengeful Huron warrior named Magua. Cooper masterfully combines high-stakes wilderness chases and military sieges with a deeply melancholic, romantic meditation on the rapid encroachment of European civilization and the tragic, inevitable erasure of America's indigenous peoples.

Description 

Black cloth binding colored paste down to upper cover. Lettering to spine and illustrated and papers. Nine colored plates by N.C. Wyeth. Original dust jacket. Minor edgeware.