Leatherstocking Tales

1826 novel by James Fenimore Cooper

series of five books by James Fenimore Cooper, originally published between 1823–1841

1841 novel by James Fenimore Cooper

fort in state New York, at the shore of Lake George

1823 novel by James Fenimore Cooper

1827 novel by James Fenimore Cooper

1840 novel by James Fenimore Cooper

Chingachgook is a fictional character in four of James Fenimore Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, including his 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans. Chingachgook was a lone Mohican chief and companion of the series' hero, Natty Bumppo. In The Deerslayer (1841), Chingachgook married Wah-ta-Wah, who had a son with him named Uncas, but died while she was still young. Uncas, who was at his birth "last of the Mohicans", grew to manhood but was killed in a battle with the Huron warrior Magua. Chingachgook died as an old man in the novel The Pioneers (1823), which made him the actual "last of the

fictional character created by James Fenimore Cooper