Leatherstocking

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• You see, my mother was disheartened when she learned that our schools weren't sharing with us the tales of Leatherstocking, the companionship of the Musketeers, the madness of Ahab, or the delight of the Mississippi.

  Blog text (17)

• And this attitude, which received its best expression in the mid-1840s by the character Natty Bumppo in James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, has left its imprint on our game of football.

  Academic text (1994)

• One concerns Leatherstocking's age and the long time he has been living in the forest.

  Academic text (1997)

• Once again, Leatherstocking and his friends may serve as the spokesmen of this phenomenon.

  Academic text (1997)

• "Yeah, and Leatherstocking could have done it at a hundred yards, if you can believe Fenimore Cooper.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Time for Leatherstocking.

  Fiction book (2000)

• In "Lesson of the Floods," Puck invokes the spirit Leatherstocking.

  Academic text (2000)

• Since Catharine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie (1827) and James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking novels, sympathetic White authors

  Academic text (1998)

• For example, James Fenimore Cooper's five Leatherstocking novels portrayed the inevitable demise of the Noble Savage through a clash between land-hungry white speculators and the native population.

  Academic text (1998)

• James Fenimore Cooper's character Natty Bumppo, known as Leatherstocking, is often regarded as a symbol of the American frontier.

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