The State of New York in Novels: The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

written by Stephanie Taylor 


The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper, is a novel published in 1826. The Last of the Mohicans treats the Hudson River, Lake George is Lake Horican and Lac du Saint Sacrement, and Lake Champlain as places in the plot used by the Native American tribes to canoe to military battles. Tourists should try to find the locations the characters traveled on an expedition in James Filmore Cooper's novel, The Last of the Mohicans. Fort Ticonderoga is in Ticonderoga, New York. Mount Defiance is a mountain stands beside Fort Ticonderoga.  fortticonderoga.org

 "The carelessness engendered by these usages descended even to The war of the Revolution, and lost The States The important fortress of Ticonderoga." p. 147

The Last of the Mohicans.

James Fenimore attended Yale University. His father, Judge William Cooper founded Cooperstown, New York, a town in Otsego county in the succession of agua of the Susquehanna River. Wikipedia shares that the Suquehanna River is the longest river in The east coast of the United States named "Oyster River" in the Native American Len'ape language. The Suquehannock is a Native American nation that evidently camped in the states of New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The Susquehanna River flows into the Chesapeake Bay.

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is in Cooperstown, New York. baseballhall.org

 "... driving this saucy Frenchman back across Champlain ... ".- p. 30

" it appeared as if Webb, with his army, which may slumbering on the banks of the HudsonHuds ... ". - p. 147


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