The Independent - London, February 17th, 2002
The author James Fenimore Cooper was born in Burlington, New Jersey, on 15 September 1789, but grew up in Cooperstown in New York State. `The Last of the Mohicans' (1826), from which this extract is taken, was inspired by this frontier home, with its spectacular scenery and its population of settlers, trappers and Indian tribes. Cooper died in 1851.
It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide and apparently an impervious boundary of forests severed the possessio...
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