Works of James Fenimore Cooper: Brief Summary Of 'The Last Of The Mohicans'

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Cooper, James Fenimore

Cooper, James Fenimore
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Brief Summary Of "The Last Of The Mohicans"

The time is 1757. The place is near Lake George, in New York Colony,
during the war between the British and the French. Cora and Alice, the two
beautiful daughters of Colonel Munro (the commandant of Fort William Henry)
travel through the wilderness towards their father's headquarters. They are
accompanied by Major Duncan Heyward (a young British officer from Virginia)
and David Gamut, a Connecticut singing-master. Their guide through the woods
is a treacherous Huron Indian named Magua, who claims that ...

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