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• Last of the Mohicans, The
  Last of the Mohicans, The

  noun

  a historical novel (1826) by James Fenimore Cooper.
• The Last of the Mohicans
  The Last of the Mohicans

  A novel by James Fenimore Cooper; part of The Leatherstocking Tales. The leading character is Uncas, a noble Native American who helps a family of British settlers during the French and Indian War. (See also Natty Bumppo.)

Last of the Mohicans, The

American  

noun

1. a historical novel (1826) by James Fenimore Cooper.

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The Last of the Mohicans Cultural  

1. A novel by James Fenimore Cooper; part of The Leatherstocking Tales. The leading character is Uncas, a noble Native American who helps a family of British settlers during the French and Indian War. (See also Natty Bumppo.)

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Example Sentences

Tastes differ; and there are those—possibly the majority of his readers—who prefer the Indian associations of The Last of the Mohicans, The Pioneers, &c. to the salt-water scenery of the other class of works.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 418 Volume 17, New Series, January 3, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

The famous "Leather-Stocking Tales" followed, and the world made the acquaintance of the America of the Indian and the pioneer in "The Deerslayer," "The Last of the Mohicans," "The Pathfinder," "The Pioneers," and "The Prairie."

From Historic Boyhoods by Holland, Rupert Sargent

"The Pioneers," "The Last of the Mohicans," "The Prairie," "The Pathfinder," and "The Deerslayer" are among the best of his tales of frontier life.

From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes

In "The Pioneers," "The Last of the Mohicans," "The Prairie," "The Pathfinder," and "The Deer-slayer" figures the character of Leatherstocking, than whom no fictitious personage has a greater claim to interest.

From A History of English Prose Fiction by Tuckerman, Bayard

"Last of the Mohicans, The," 52-55, 56, 58, 66, 71, 72, 239, 291.

From James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford