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The otliers were the Last of the Mohicans, 1826; the Prairie, 1827; the Pathfinder, 1840; and the Deerslayer, 1841. The hero of this series. Natty Bumpo, or " Leatherstocking," was Cooper's one great creation in the sphere of charcter, his most original addition to the literature of the world in the way of a new human type. Tliis backwoods philosopher — to the conception of whom the his- toric exploits of Daniel Boone perhaps supplied some hints ; unschooled, but moved by noble impujses and a n...atural sense of piety and justice; passionately attached to the wilderness, and fol- lowing its westering edge even unto the prairies — this man of the woods was the first real Ameri- can in fiction. Hardly less individual and vital The Era of National Expansion. 107 were the various types of Indian character, in Chingachgook, Uncas, Hist, and the Huron \var- riors. Inferior to these, but still vigorously though somewhat roughly drawn, were the waifs and strays of civilization, whom duty, or the hope of gain, or the love of adventure, or the outlawry of crime had driven to the wilderness — the solitary trap23er, the reckless young frontiersman, the offi- .cers and men of out-post garrisons.
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