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Wilderness adventure
From: Boys' Life
Date: 20021201
Author:Haddaway, Rich
James Fenimore Cooper's s "The Last of the Mohicans" doesn't need pictures to bring it alive; the words do that. But add the paintings of one of America's greatest artists, N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945), and you've got a classic (Atheneum, $18.95). Cooper was born in 1789, when Indians ruled most of America, and Wyeth traveled the American West in its wilder days. I They knew the wilderness from the inside out.
A few white men grew to love the ways of the Indians and learned to live in the outdoors with the skills of a native. They were known as 11 scouts." In this novel a scout named Hawkeye and ...
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