... by The Last of the Mohicans. One could honestly say that the gun-slinging heroes of O"Henry's in Double Trouble, John Wayne flicks or the Cisco Kid might never have been without Cooper's contribution of Hawkeye. Another appreciable characteristic of the book is the reference to the "Last of the Mohicans". While the title is explicitly referring to a single character in the book who is literally the last of his tribe, in certain contexts it accentuates the fact that the American ... between good and evil, its ideas of Indian descent to hell, and its Miltonic flavor. Cooper also believed ...

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