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The last of mohicans novel5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Magua escapes, but later returns with a band of Indians who take the two women captive, along with Hayward and David Gamut, a teacher of religious singing who seems to exist in the book only to serve as the Christian antithesis of the stoic Hawkeye. Hawkeye informs the party that their Indian guide, Magua, has been leading them astray, and that he is a member of the Huron tribe who is friendly with the French. By happenstance they encounter the frontiersman known as Hawkeye, his Indian companion Chingachgook, and the latter’s son Uncas. Accompanying the soldiers are Cora and Alice Munro, the daughters of the general who presides at the fort. A troop of British colonials, led by the young Major Duncan Hayward, travels through the wilderness on their way to Fort William Henry. The Last of the Mohicans takes place in New York state in 1757, during the French and Indian Wars. Deserving of its status as an American classic ![]()
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