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James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper, painting by John Wesley Jarvis, 1822; in the Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York.
The Last of the Mohicans, a celebrated novel by James Fenimore Cooper, takes place in 1757 during the French and Indian War.1