James F. Cooper was a 19th century American novelist, best-known far the ‘Leatherstocking Tales' including ‘The Last of the Mohicans', vvhich is extensively regarded as his masterwork. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days fashioned an inimitable type of American literatüre. Before he took to nriting, he functioned as a Midshipman in the U.S. Navy; the experiences of which were seen in a number of his works and novels. Although many of his works were enjo ...