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conversations.value: Published in the early 19th century, James Fenimore Coopers The Last of the Mohicans is a fictionalized adventure taking place during the French-American War. The daughters of an American colonel become caught up in the conflict between the two nations contest for supremacy in North America, and embroiled in the war between the Native American allies of the two sides. Coopers trademark intricacy of description and his portrayal of life during this tumultuous era have made The Last of the Mohicans one of the worlds most widely read American novels.
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conversations.value: The Last of the Mohicans: Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of Lieutenant Colonel Munro, are traveling with Major Duncan Heyward from Fort Edward to Fort William Henry, where Munro is in command, and acquire another companion in David Gamut, a naive singing teacher.\nThey are guided through the forest by a native named Magua, who leads them through a shortcut unaccompanied by the British militia.\nHeyward is dissatisfied with Magua\'s shortcut, and the party roam unguided and finally join Natty Bumppo (known as Hawk-eye), a scout for the British, and his two Mohican friends, Chingachgook and his son Uncas.\nHeyward becomes suspicious of Magua, and Hawk-eye and the Mohicans agree with his suspicion, that Magua is a Huron scout secretly allied with the French.\nUpon discovery as such, Magua escapes, and in the (correct) belief that Magua will return with Huron reinforcements, Hawk-eye and the Mohicans lead their new companions to a hidden cave on an island in a river.\nThey are attacked there by the Hurons, and when ammunition is exhausted, Hawk-eye and the Mohicans escape, with a promise to return for their companions.\nMagua and the Hurons capture Heyward, Gamut, and the Munro sisters, and Magua offers to spare the party if Cora becomes his wife, but she refuses.\nUpon a second refusal, he sentences the prisoners to death.\nHawk-eye and the Mohicans rescue all four, and lead them to a dilapidated building that was involved with a battle between the Indians and the British some years ago.\nThey are nearly attacked again, but the Hurons leave the area, rather than disturb the graves of their own fellow-countrymen.\nThe next day, Hawk-eye leads the party to Fort Henry, past a siege by the French army.\nMunro sends Hawk-eye to Fort Edward for reinforcements; but he is captured by the French, who deliver him to Fort Henry without the letter.\nHeyward returns to Colonel Munro and announces his love for Alice, and Munro gives his permission for Heyward\'s courtship.\nThe French general, Montcalm, invites Munro to a parley, and shows him General Webb\'s letter, in which the British general has refused reinforcements.\nAt this, Munro agrees to Montcalm\'s terms that the British soldiers, together with their wounded, women, and children, must leave the fort and withdraw from the war for eighteen months.\nOutside the fort, the column of British prisoners is attacked by 2000 Huron warriors; in the ensuing massacre, Magua kidnaps Cora and Alice, and he leads them toward the Huron village.\nDavid Gamut follows.\nAfter the massacre, Hawk-eye, the Mohicans, Heyward, and Colonel Munro follow Magua, and cross a lake to intercept his trail.\nA canoe chase ensues, in which the rescuers reach land before the Hurons can kill them, and eventually follow Magua to the Huron village.\nHere, they find Gamut (earlier spared by the Hurons as a harmless madman), who says that Alice is held in this village, and Cora in one belonging to the Lenape (Delaware).\nDisguised as a French medicine man, Heyward enters the Huron village with Gamut, to rescue Alice; Hawk-eye and Uncas set out to rescue Cora, and Munro and Chingachgook remain in safety.\nUncas is taken prisoner by the Hurons, and left to starve when he withstands torture, and Heyward fails to find Alice.\nA Huron warrior asks Heyward to heal his lunatic wife, and both are stalked by Hawk-eye in the guise of a bear.\nThey enter a cave where the madwoman is kept, and the warrior leaves.\nSoon after revelation of his identity to Heyward, Hawk-eye accompanies him, and they find Alice.\nThey are discovered by Magua; but Hawk-eye overpowers him, and they leave him tied to a wall.\nThereafter Heyward escapes with Alice, while Hawk-eye remains to save Uncas.\nGamut convinces a Huron to allow him and his magical bear (Hawk-eye in disguise) to approach Uncas, and they untie him.\nUncas dons the bear disguise, Hawk-eye wears Gamut\'s clothes, and Gamut stays in a corner mimicking Uncas.\nUncas and Hawk-eye escape and the Hurons vow revenge.\nUncas and Hawk-eye travel to the Delaware village where Cora is held, and where Magua demands the return of his prisoners.\nTamenund, the sage of the Delawares, frees the prisoners, except for Cora, whom he awards to Magua.\nTo satisfy laws of hospitality, Tamenund gives Magua a three-hour head start before pursuit.\nThe Delawares vanquish the Hurons, but Magua escapes with Cora and two other Hurons; Uncas, Hawk-eye, and Heyward pursue them.\nIn a fight at the edge of a cliff, Cora, Uncas, and Magua are killed.\nThe novel concludes with a lengthy account of the funerals of Uncas and Cora, and Hawk-eye reaffirms his friendship with Chingachgook.\nTamenund prophesies: "The pale-faces are masters of the earth, and the time of the red-men has not yet come again.\n".
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conversations.value: \n".\nThey are guided through the forest by a native named Magua, who leads them through a shortcut unaccompanied by the British militia.\nHeyward is dissatisfied with Magua\'s shortcut, and the party roam unguided and finally join Natty Bumppo (known as Hawk-eye), a scout for the British, and his two Mohican friends, Chingachgook and his son Uncas.\nHeyward becomes suspicious of Magua, and Hawk-eye and the Mohicans agree with his suspicion, that Magua is a Huron scout secretly allied with the French.\nUpon discovery as such, Magua escapes, and in the (correct) belief that Magua will return with Huron reinforcements, Hawk-eye and the Mohicans lead their new companions to a hidden cave on an island in a river.\nThey are attacked there by the Hurons, and when ammunition is exhausted, Hawk-eye and the Mohicans escape, with a promise to return for their companions.\nMagua and the Hurons capture Heyward, Gamut, and the Munro sisters, and Magua offers to spare the party if Cora becomes his wife, but she refuses.\nUpon a second refusal, he sentences the prisoners to death.\nHawk-eye and the Mohicans rescue all four, and lead them to a dilapidated building that was involved with a battle between the Indians and the British some years ago.\nThey are nearly attacked again, but the Hurons leave the area, rather than disturb the graves of their own fellow-countrymen.\nThe next day, Hawk-eye leads the party to Fort Henry, past a siege by the French army.\nMunro sends Hawk-eye to Fort Edward for reinforcements; but he is captured by the French, who deliver him to Fort Henry without the letter.\nHeyward returns to Colonel Munro and announces his love for Alice, and Munro gives his permission for Heyward\'s courtship.\nThe French general, Montcalm, invites Munro to a parley, and shows him General Webb\'s letter, in which the British general has refused reinforcements.\nAt this, Munro agrees to Montcalm\'s terms that the British soldiers, together with their wounded, women, and children, must leave the fort and withdraw from the war for eighteen months.\nOutside the fort, the column of British prisoners is attacked by 2000 Huron warriors; in the ensuing massacre, Magua kidnaps Cora and Alice, and he leads them toward the Huron village.\nDavid Gamut follows.\nAfter the massacre, Hawk-eye, the Mohicans, Heyward, and Colonel Munro follow Magua, and cross a lake to intercept his trail.\nA canoe chase ensues, in which the rescuers reach land before the Hurons can kill them, and eventually follow Magua to the Huron village.\nHere, they find Gamut (earlier spared by the Hurons as a harmless madman), who says that Alice is held in this village, and Cora in one belonging to the Lenape (Delaware).\nDisguised as a French medicine man, Heyward enters the Huron village with Gamut, to rescue Alice; Hawk-eye and Uncas set out to rescue Cora, and Munro and Chingachgook remain in safety.\nUncas is taken prisoner by the Hurons, and left to starve when he withstands torture, and Heyward fails to find Alice.\nA Huron warrior asks Heyward to heal his lunatic wife, and both are stalked by Hawk-eye in the guise of a bear.\nThey enter a cave where the madwoman is kept, and the warrior leaves.\nSoon after revelation of his identity to Heyward, Hawk-eye accompanies him, and they find Alice.\nThey are discovered by Magua; but Hawk-eye overpowers him, and they leave him tied to a wall.\nThereafter Heyward escapes with Alice, while Hawk-eye remains to save Uncas.\nGamut convinces a Huron to allow him and his magical bear (Hawk-eye in disguise) to approach Uncas, and they untie him.\nUncas dons the bear disguise, Hawk-eye wears Gamut\'s clothes, and Gamut stays in a corner mimicking Uncas.\nUncas and Hawk-eye escape and the Hurons vow revenge.\nUncas and Hawk-eye travel to the Delaware village where Cora is held, and where Magua demands the return of his prisoners.\nTamenund, the sage of the Delawares, frees the prisoners, except for Cora, whom he awards to Magua.\nTo satisfy laws of hospitality, Tamenund gives Magua a three-hour head start before pursuit.\nThe Delawares vanquish the Hurons, but Magua escapes with Cora and two other Hurons; Uncas, Hawk-eye, and Heyward pursue them.\nIn a fight at the edge of a cliff, Cora, Uncas, and Magua are killed.\nThe novel concludes with a lengthy account of the funerals of Uncas and Cora, and Hawk-eye reaffirms his friendship with Chingachgook.\nTamenund prophesies: "The pale-faces are masters of the earth, and the time of the red-men has not yet come again.The Last of the Mohicans: Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of Lieutenant Colonel Munro, are traveling with Major Duncan Heyward from Fort Edward to Fort William Henry, where Munro is in command, and acquire another companion in David Gamut, a naive singing teacher.
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conversations.value: The Last of the Mohicans (1920 American film): In 1757, in the midst of the French and Indian War, three French divisions and their Huron Indian allies are advancing on Fort William Henry, a British stronghold south of Lake George in the colony of New York.\nChingachgook (Theodore Lorch) sends his son Uncas (Roscoe), the last living warrior of the Mohican tribe, to warn the fort\'s commander, Colonel Munro (James Gordon), of the imminent danger.\nUncas is admired by Munro\'s daughter Cora (Barbara Bedford), much to the displeasure of her suitor, Captain Randolph (George Hackathorne).\nMunro dispatches Major Heyward (Henry Woodward) and an Indian runner named Magua (Beery) to escort Cora and her "capricious" younger sister Alice (Hall) to the relative safety of Fort Edward, and to deliver an urgent request for reinforcements to its commander, General Webb (Sydney Deane).\nMagua, who is a Huron sympathizer with ulterior motives, convinces Heyward to take a "shortcut" through a forest, then pretends to lose his way.\nIn the forest they encounter Uncas, Chingachgook and the hunter and scout Hawkeye (Harry Lorraine), accompanied by an eccentric preacher named David Gamut (Nelson McDowell).\nWhen Heyward asks for directions to Fort Edward, the men become suspicious of Magua who, like all Indians in the area, should have an intimate knowledge of the terrain.\nTheir fears of treachery are confirmed when they discover that Magua has disappeared.\nUncas and Hawkeye conceal Heyward and the women in a cave, but Magua and his men find the hiding place, and after a fierce firefight the women are captured.\nMagua offers to spare "Golden Hair" (Alice) if Cora will become his squaw; but Uncas, Chingachgook and Hawkeye counterattack and rescue the hostages.\nAlthough they leave Magua for dead, he is actually uninjured.\nAt Fort William Henry the situation is dire.\nThe only thing keeping the besiegers at bay is a formidable gun emplacement on the left rampart.\nThe cowardly Captain Randolph informs Montcalm, the French commander, that the rampart guns are nonfunctional, leaving Munro no choice but to surrender the fort.\nThough promised safe passage for the women and children, the Hurons, under the influence of French-supplied whiskey, slaughter the civilians and torch the fort.\nMagua kidnaps the Munro sisters for a second time and flees.\nUncas and Hawkeye pursue him, but Magua reaches a neutral Delaware village.\nThe dispute is taken before a Delaware council of three; their judgment is that Cora be released to Uncas, and that Alice remain with Magua.\nTo save her sister, Cora offers to take her place.\nUncas vows that Magua will not leave with his true love; but by Delaware law, Magua is protected until sundown.\nThat night, Cora escapes and is pursued by Magua to the edge of a precipice.\nShe threatens to jump if he approaches, so Magua waits patiently for her to fall asleep.\nWhen she does, he grabs her arm.\nShe flings herself off the cliff, but Magua still has hold of her arms.\nWhen Uncas appears, the situation is reversed: Cora tries to save herself, but Magua uses his knife to pry her fingers loose, and she falls to her death.\nIn the ensuing fight, Magua stabs Uncas, whose body rolls down the embankment to rest near Cora\'s.\nWith his final, dying strength, Uncas reaches forth and takes Cora\'s hand in his.\nMagua flees when Chingachgook and Hawkeye arrive, but Hawkeye shoots him dead.\nAt Cora and Uncas\'s burial ceremony, Chingachgook mourns the passing of his son, the last of the Mohicans.
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conversations.value: \nChingachgook (Theodore Lorch) sends his son Uncas (Roscoe), the last living warrior of the Mohican tribe, to warn the fort\'s commander, Colonel Munro (James Gordon), of the imminent danger.\nUncas is admired by Munro\'s daughter Cora (Barbara Bedford), much to the displeasure of her suitor, Captain Randolph (George Hackathorne).\nMunro dispatches Major Heyward (Henry Woodward) and an Indian runner named Magua (Beery) to escort Cora and her "capricious" younger sister Alice (Hall) to the relative safety of Fort Edward, and to deliver an urgent request for reinforcements to its commander, General Webb (Sydney Deane).\nMagua, who is a Huron sympathizer with ulterior motives, convinces Heyward to take a "shortcut" through a forest, then pretends to lose his way.\nIn the forest they encounter Uncas, Chingachgook and the hunter and scout Hawkeye (Harry Lorraine), accompanied by an eccentric preacher named David Gamut (Nelson McDowell).\nWhen Heyward asks for directions to Fort Edward, the men become suspicious of Magua who, like all Indians in the area, should have an intimate knowledge of the terrain.\nTheir fears of treachery are confirmed when they discover that Magua has disappeared.\nUncas and Hawkeye conceal Heyward and the women in a cave, but Magua and his men find the hiding place, and after a fierce firefight the women are captured.\nMagua offers to spare "Golden Hair" (Alice) if Cora will become his squaw; but Uncas, Chingachgook and Hawkeye counterattack and rescue the hostages.\nAlthough they leave Magua for dead, he is actually uninjured.\nAt Fort William Henry the situation is dire.\nThe only thing keeping the besiegers at bay is a formidable gun emplacement on the left rampart.\nThe cowardly Captain Randolph informs Montcalm, the French commander, that the rampart guns are nonfunctional, leaving Munro no choice but to surrender the fort.\nThough promised safe passage for the women and children, the Hurons, under the influence of French-supplied whiskey, slaughter the civilians and torch the fort.\nMagua kidnaps the Munro sisters for a second time and flees.\nUncas and Hawkeye pursue him, but Magua reaches a neutral Delaware village.\nThe dispute is taken before a Delaware council of three; their judgment is that Cora be released to Uncas, and that Alice remain with Magua.\nTo save her sister, Cora offers to take her place.\nUncas vows that Magua will not leave with his true love; but by Delaware law, Magua is protected until sundown.\nThat night, Cora escapes and is pursued by Magua to the edge of a precipice.\nShe threatens to jump if he approaches, so Magua waits patiently for her to fall asleep.\nWhen she does, he grabs her arm.\nShe flings herself off the cliff, but Magua still has hold of her arms.\nWhen Uncas appears, the situation is reversed: Cora tries to save herself, but Magua uses his knife to pry her fingers loose, and she falls to her death.\nIn the ensuing fight, Magua stabs Uncas, whose body rolls down the embankment to rest near Cora\'s.\nWith his final, dying strength, Uncas reaches forth and takes Cora\'s hand in his.\nMagua flees when Chingachgook and Hawkeye arrive, but Hawkeye shoots him dead.\nAt Cora and Uncas\'s burial ceremony, Chingachgook mourns the passing of his son, the last of the Mohicans.
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conversations.value: The Last of the Mohicans
  Kolodny, Annette. The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975.
  Maddox, Lucy. Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Politics of Indian Affairs. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
  Slotkin, Richard. Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1973.
  Smith, Henry Nash. Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1950.
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conversations.value: From the poem "An Indian at the Burial-Place of His Fathers" (1824), by American poet and editor William Cullen Bryant.
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conversations.value: The Salic law, a rule of succession among some European noble families, forbade a woman from ruling France.
  Scotland's Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, supposedly founded in 787. ‡"No one provokes me with impunity" (Latin), motto of the Order of the Thistle.
  Reference to a Native American attack on unarmed British troops who had surrendered to Montcalm at Fort Oswego in 1756.
  Another reference to the attack by Native Americans fighting with Montcalm's French forces against the British at Oswego (see footnote on p. 174).