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A cemetery near Fly Creek, NY where the inspiration for James Fennmore Cooper's character Natty Bumpo is buried.
The great Roman naturalist Pliny tells us that in ancient Gaul the birch was called the Tree of Wisdom. According to him the Druids used its branches to inculcate wisdom in their young people. And in our own times we probably all know the meaning of a good 'birching', that is to say a whipping wreaked upon a slack school boy.
But rather my thoughts turned to the great American writer, James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), who in his 'Indian' novels often refers to birches, primarily in the context of canoes. And of course to Captain Birch, in his exciting The Spy.
But that's all very far away from Genooi, just north of Venlo, where this copse of birches stood out brightly against the early Winter sky.
"Avoiding the horns of the infuriated animal, Uncas darted to his side, and passed his knife across the throat."
"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists.
The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo (known as Hawkeye), Major Duncan Heyward, and the Indians Chingachgook and his son Uncas. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regards to their racial composition.
[Source: Wikipedia]
One of the handsome drawing rooms overlooking Lake Otsego at the Otesaga in Cooperstown, New York. The Otesaga was built in 1909 by Edward Severin Clark, one of the heirs of the Singer-Clark sewing machine fortune. Clark commissioned architect Percy Griffin to build a gracious resort hotel on the shores of Lake Otsego, just a short drive from the village of Cooperstown. For many years, the Knox School for Girls used the hotel in the off-season for their classes. This arrangement ended in the 1970s and the hotel has been lavished with restoration funds from the Clark Foundation. The Clarks are a positive example of using an enormous fortune for good works, exhibited by the pristine appearance of Cooperstown and Lake Otsego itself. More should follow their example.
"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists.
The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo (known as Hawkeye), Major Duncan Heyward, and the Indians Chingachgook and his son Uncas. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regards to their racial composition.
[Source: Wikipedia]
"Each of the combatants threw all his energies into that effort, and the result was, that both tottered on the brink of the precipice."
"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists.
The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo (known as Hawkeye), Major Duncan Heyward, and the Indians Chingachgook and his son Uncas. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regards to their racial composition.
[Source: Wikipedia]
"The battle was now entirely terminated, with the exception of the protracted struggle between Le Renard Subtil and Le Gros Serpent."
"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists.
The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo (known as Hawkeye), Major Duncan Heyward, and the Indians Chingachgook and his son Uncas. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regards to their racial composition.
[Source: Wikipedia]
"The boy has left us for a time; but, Sagamore, you are not alone."
"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists.
The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo (known as Hawkeye), Major Duncan Heyward, and the Indians Chingachgook and his son Uncas. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regards to their racial composition.
[Source: Wikipedia]
We got a new cigar store on State Street, complete with a beautifully done wooden symbol outside, so people who cannot read “La Aroma De Havana Cigar Lounge” will still know that this is the right place!
But shouldn’t the name of the store be “El Aroma de La Habana”?... ¡Those gringos! (or ¿pochos?) Three errors in just four words!
“Then as to churches, they are good, I suppose, else wouldn't good men uphold' em. But they are not altogether necessary. They call 'em the temples of the Lord; but, Judith, the whole 'arth is a temple of the Lord to such as have the right mind. Neither forts nor churches make people happier of themselves. Moreover, all is contradiction in the settlements, while all is concord in the woods. Forts and churches almost always go together, and yet they're downright contradictions; churches being for peace, and forts for war. No, no--give me the strong places of the wilderness, which is the trees, and the churches, too, which are arbors raised by the hand of nature.”
― James Fenimore Cooper
I fancy myself a Christian. Most of those would say you have to attend Church. In the book of Matthew Jesus says that where there are 2 or 3, there also He will be. So yes you do need to be among your fellows. I often feel the presence of God strongest in the great temple he created for Man.
The times I don't feel that presence is when I'm letting the act of picture taking become the primary reason for being. Putting what I want above all else. One of my other contacts mentioned that when he is in the woods hiking he gets in to a Zen state. I think there is something to being in the wild that brings one closer to God.
"The scout having ascertained that the Mohicans were sufficient of themselves to maintain the requisite distance, deliberately laid aside his paddle, and raised the fatal rifle."
"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists.
The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo (known as Hawkeye), Major Duncan Heyward, and the Indians Chingachgook and his son Uncas. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regards to their racial composition.
[Source: Wikipedia]
The image on the cover was inspired by Cooper's title character Uncas, who is Hawkeye's friend, the son of Chingachgook and "The Last of the Mohicans."
"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists.
The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo (known as Hawkeye), Major Duncan Heyward, and the Indians Chingachgook and his son Uncas. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regards to their racial composition.
[Source: Wikipedia]
"The grim head fell on one side, and in its place appeared the honest, sturdy countenance of the scout."
"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists.
The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo (known as Hawkeye), Major Duncan Heyward, and the Indians Chingachgook and his son Uncas. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regards to their racial composition.
[Source: Wikipedia]
“The Deerslayer, or The First War-Path” (1841) was James Fenimore Cooper’s last novel in his “Leatherstocking Tales.” Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the “Leatherstocking Tales,” Natty Bumppo (or Hawkeye). The novel’s setting on Otsego Lake in central, upstate New York, is the same as that of “The Pioneers,’ the first of the tales to be published (1823). “The Deerslayer” is considered to be the prequel to the rest of the series. It should have been the opening book, for in that work Natty Bumppo is seen just emerging into manhood as a young hunter among the Delaware Indians; to be succeeded by “The Last of the Mohicans,” “The Pathfinder,” “The Pioneers,” and “The Prairie.” Fenimore Cooper relates the astonishing advance of civilization in New York State, which is the setting of four of the five “Leatherstocking Tales.” “The Deerslayer” is a rousing story of warfare between the Indians and the white settlers around Otsego Lake. [Source: Preface to the Book and Wikipedia]
12,000 years ago, what we know now as Niagara Falls was here at what is today Lewiston (called Niagara Landing until 1822), 7 miles downstream. This is the Niagara River which connects the Great Lakes Erie and Ontario, and separates Canada from the US. Lake Ontario is about 100 metres lower than Lake Erie; the falls caused by this difference in height eroded their way from Lewiston to their present-day location. Amazing it is that it took only 12,000 years to do this considering the sheer rock it had to grind away. Ah! The power of water!
Around 1450 CE, the Five Nation Iroquois Indian Alliance (Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga) - possibly under the guidance of Hiawatha! - decided that the Senecas would be responsible for the land- and waterway rights of this area. Not that the French who first settled here under the command of the explorer and Huron interpreter Étienne Brule (c.1591-1632) took much notice. Whatever the case, the area is rich in Indian-European history, French-British ongoings, American-British encounters such as the disasters of 1812, American heroics, e.g. the Underground Railroad of which Lewiston was the last stop for slaves escaping to Canada (memorialized in Margaret Goff Clark's "Freedom Crossing")... , and it is also a reminder of environmental sort (the remains of the Manhattan Project are interred deep under the soil and rocks of Lewiston's Tuscarora County). The place was called Yehęwakwáˀthaˀ by the Tuscarora Indians (who in 1721 joined the Iroquois Indian Alliance as a sixth member of the Rotinonhsón:ni Confederacy); the English name derives from Morgan Lewis (1754-1844), onetime governor of New York State (1804-1807) and an amateur historian of George Washington.
Lewiston is a pleasant little, kind of artsy community with some nice restaurants (it is said that the 'cocktail' was invented here by the hosts of that great author James Fenimore Cooper: who does not remember 'The Pathfinder' or 'The Last of the Mohicans'?!) ) and hotels. A lot of sport fishing is done setting out from the pictured landing: especially prized, I am told, are steelhead, smallmouth bass and walleye pike. Remarking that some local wine (e.g. ' Niagara Landing' wines are quite good chilled, and there's also a brand of 'Eiswein' ) would be a suitable accompaniment, I was told: '... nope! beer, of course!'
Illustrierte Klassiker / Heft-Reihe
James Fenimore Cooper / Der alte Trapper
cover: ?
Reprints from Classics Illustrated (Gilberton, 1947 series) #58 [HRN 146] - The Prairie (September 1958)
Bildschriftenverlag (Hamburg / Deutschland; 1959)
Copyright: Gilberton Company / USA
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"Never minstrel, or by whatever more suitable name David should be known, drew upon his talents in the presence of more insensible auditors."
"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists.
The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo (known as Hawkeye), Major Duncan Heyward, and the Indians Chingachgook and his son Uncas. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regards to their racial composition.
[Source: Wikipedia]
"He hesitated a moment; and then catching the light and senseless form of Alice in his arms, the subtle Indian moved swiftly across the plain towards the woods."
"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists.
The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo (known as Hawkeye), Major Duncan Heyward, and the Indians Chingachgook and his son Uncas. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regards to their racial composition.
[Source: Wikipedia]
"Cora had cast herself to her knees; and, with hands clenched in each other and pressed upon her bosom, she remained like a beauteous and breathing model of her sex."
"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists.
The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo (known as Hawkeye), Major Duncan Heyward, and the Indians Chingachgook and his son Uncas. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regards to their racial composition.
[Source: Wikipedia]
"Throwing back her light vestment, she stretched forth her long skinny arm, in derision."
"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists.
The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo (known as Hawkeye), Major Duncan Heyward, and the Indians Chingachgook and his son Uncas. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regards to their racial composition.
[Source: Wikipedia]
Heyward and Alice took their way together towards the distant village of the Delawares."
"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists.
The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo (known as Hawkeye), Major Duncan Heyward, and the Indians Chingachgook and his son Uncas. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regards to their racial composition.
[Source: Wikipedia]
"A flaring torch was burning in the place, and sent its red glare from face to face and figure to figure, as it waved in the currents of air."
"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists.
The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo (known as Hawkeye), Major Duncan Heyward, and the Indians Chingachgook and his son Uncas. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regards to their racial composition.
[Source: Wikipedia]
"As soon as this slight salutation had passed, Montcalm moved towards them with a quick but graceful step, baring his head to the veteran, and dropping his spotless plume nearly to the earth in courtesy."
"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists.
The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo (known as Hawkeye), Major Duncan Heyward, and the Indians Chingachgook and his son Uncas. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regards to their racial composition.
[Source: Wikipedia]
Target Comics / Heft-Reihe
> Fantastic Feature Films / The Last of the Mohicans [Part 2]
Script: ? (after James Fenimore Cooper)
art: Harold DeLay
Novelty Press, Inc. / USA 1942
Reprint: Comic-Club NK 2010
ex libris MTP
©2008 Phillip Nesmith - My father at his home in central Tennessee. Being in the woods is his passion. He is the calmest person I know, a true Zen master in is own way.
This is the only image that I have made of him since I was a kid.
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore.
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal"
—Childe Harold (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron)
(The above poem can be found at the beginning of chapter one of The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper)
Some blogging is located here.
German postcard, no. 58. Photo: Constantin. Daniel Martin in Der Lezte Mohikaner/The Last Tomahawk (1964). Caption: The wise chief has heard both. He asked it the great Manitou. The judgment of the God is: a duel will decide about life and death.
Since 1962, Spanish actor Daniel Martin (1935) has acted in more than 60 films. He appeared under the pseudonym Dan Martin in many Eurowesterns, including Per un pugno di dollari/A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone, 1964), and as Unkas in Der Letzte Mohikaner/The Last of the Mohicans (Alfred Vohrer, 1964), based on the classic novel by James Fenimore Cooper.
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"The Last of the Mohicans" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War, when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists.
The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing the transport of the two daughters of Colonel Munro, Alice and Cora, to a safe destination at Fort William Henry. Among the caravan guarding the women are the frontiersman Natty Bumppo (known as Hawkeye), Major Duncan Heyward, and the Indians Chingachgook and his son Uncas. These characters are sometimes seen as a microcosm of the budding American society, particularly with regards to their racial composition.
[Source: Wikipedia]
Cooper / Der letzte Mohikaner
Nacherzählt von Albert Häusermann
Gloria-Buch / Sammelalbum
Bilder aus dem Farbfilm "Der letzte Mohikaner"
Gloria-Verlag (Bergdietikon / Schweiz; 1967)
ex libris MTP
Cooper / Der letzte Mohikaner
Nacherzählt von Albert Häusermann
Gloria-Buch / Sammelalbum
Bilder aus dem Farbfilm "Der letzte Mohikaner"
Gloria-Verlag (Bergdietikon / Schweiz; 1967)
ex libris MTP
Cooper / Der letzte Mohikaner
Nacherzählt von Albert Häusermann
Gloria-Buch / Sammelalbum
Bilder aus dem Farbfilm "Der letzte Mohikaner"
Gloria-Verlag (Bergdietikon / Schweiz; 1967)
ex libris MTP
Cooper / Der letzte Mohikaner
Nacherzählt von Albert Häusermann
Gloria-Buch / Sammelalbum
Bilder aus dem Farbfilm "Der letzte Mohikaner"
Gloria-Verlag (Bergdietikon / Schweiz; 1967)
ex libris MTP
Target Comics / Heft-Reihe
> Fantastic Feature Films / The Last of the Mohicans [Part 10]
Script: ? (after James Fenimore Cooper)
art: Harold DeLay
Novelty Press, Inc. / USA 1942
Reprint: Comic-Club NK 2010
ex libris MTP
Illustrierte Klassiker / Heft-Reihe
James Fenimore Cooper / Der alte Trapper
art: Rudolph Palais
Reprints from Classics Illustrated (Gilberton, 1947 series) #58 [HRN 146] - The Prairie (September 1958)
Bildschriftenverlag (Hamburg / Deutschland)
Copyright: Gilberton Company / USA
ex libris MTP
Cooper / Der letzte Mohikaner
Nacherzählt von Albert Häusermann
Gloria-Buch / Sammelalbum
Bilder aus dem Farbfilm "Der letzte Mohikaner"
Gloria-Verlag (Bergdietikon / Schweiz; 1967)
ex libris MTP
Cooper / Der letzte Mohikaner
Nacherzählt von Albert Häusermann
Gloria-Buch / Sammelalbum
Bilder aus dem Farbfilm "Der letzte Mohikaner"
Gloria-Verlag (Bergdietikon / Schweiz; 1967)
ex libris MTP
Illustrierte Klassiker / Heft-Reihe
James Fenimore Cooper / Der Wildtöter
Reprints from Classics Illustrated (Thorpe & Porter, 1951 series) #17 - The Deerslayer
cover: ?
Bildschriftenverlag
(Aachen / Deutschland; 1968)
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Die Grossen Comic-Abenteuer
Der letzte Mohikaner
Zeichner: Sonny Trinidad
Reprints from Marvel Classics Comics #13 - The Last of the Mohicans / 1976
Ehapa Verlag / Deutschland 1981
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Cooper / Der letzte Mohikaner
Nacherzählt von Albert Häusermann
Gloria-Buch / Sammelalbum
Bilder aus dem Farbfilm "Der letzte Mohikaner"
Gloria-Verlag (Bergdietikon / Schweiz; 1967)
ex libris MTP
Illustrierte Klassiker / Heft-Reihe
James Fenimore Cooper / Der Lotse
cover: Gerald McCann
Reprints Classics Illustrated (Gilberton, 1947 series) #70 - The Pilot (1960)
Bildschriftenverlag (Aachen / Deutschland; 1963)
Copyright: Gilberton Company / USA
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Illustrierte Klassiker / Heft-Reihe
James Fenimore Cooper / Der Pfadfinder
cover: ?
Reprints from Classics Illustrated (Thorpe & Porter, 1951 series) #22 - The Pathfinder [Painted Cover UK] (1959 ?) / England
Bildschriftenverlag (Aachen / Deutschland; 1970)
Copyright: Gilberton Company / USA
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Cooper / Der letzte Mohikaner
Nacherzählt von Albert Häusermann
Gloria-Buch / Sammelalbum
Bilder aus dem Farbfilm "Der letzte Mohikaner"
Gloria-Verlag (Bergdietikon / Schweiz; 1967)
ex libris MTP
You do what you want with your own scalp; do not be telling us what to do with ours.¹ I want to see the frontier, before it's gone.²
NOTES
1. D.M.B. Day-Lewis in M.K. Mann 1992: The Last of the Mohicans.
2. M.L. Blake 1988: Dances with wolves, p. 10, § 2.
REFERENCES
J.M. Diamond 2017: Guns, germs and steel.
C. Ricci in B. Sonnenfeld 1993: Addams family values.
R. Slotkin 1971: Dreams and genocide.
J. Muir 1911: My first summer in the Sierra.
I really like the famous stories about how NC Wyeth, the famous Pennsylvania artist, encouraged his kids to role play characters from popular American literature. I've always liked the character Natty Bumppo (aka Deerslayer, aka Hawkeye) from Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." So here's Declan playing the young Deerslayer, complete with feathers, pre-revolutionary flag, and a sabre!
Below is a passage from Susan Fenimore Cooper's introduction to "Deerslayer" - although the language is really dated and a maybe a little offensive, I like the idea of young Natty Bumppo growing up in-between the native and European-colonial cultures.
"It was among the mountains farther south on the banks of the Susquehanna and the Upper Delaware, that the young pale-face hunter had received from the "Lenni Lennapi" the name of the Deerslayer. Here in some rude frontier home, in a log-cabin, under a bark roof, the boy had grown up to a simple, hardy, brave, and kindly manhood. Here he had learned from the dark-skinned lads his comrades to tread lightly on the summer moss, to track the game over the winter snow. Here he had played with the fawn, tamed the beaver, and the cub of the bear. Here, by the broad uncouth chimney, the brilliant flame of the hickory log, or the torch of a pine knot lighting his honest face, he had listened to the wild legends of prowess and adventure of the Lenni Lennapi until his spirit kindled at the recital. Here, stretched at night on feathers of the wild fowl, covered with skins torn as trophies from panther and wolf, he dreamed stirring dreams of daring deed, hair-breadth escape, manly endurance."
Cooper / Der letzte Mohikaner
Nacherzählt von Albert Häusermann
Gloria-Buch / Sammelalbum
Bilder aus dem Farbfilm "Der letzte Mohikaner"
Gloria-Verlag (Bergdietikon / Schweiz; 1967)
ex libris MTP
Cooper / Der letzte Mohikaner
Nacherzählt von Albert Häusermann
Gloria-Buch / Sammelalbum
Bilder aus dem Farbfilm "Der letzte Mohikaner"
Gloria-Verlag (Bergdietikon / Schweiz; 1967)
ex libris MTP
Cooper / Der letzte Mohikaner
Nacherzählt von Albert Häusermann
Gloria-Buch / Sammelalbum
Bilder aus dem Farbfilm "Der letzte Mohikaner"
Gloria-Verlag (Bergdietikon / Schweiz; 1967)
ex libris MTP
Cooper / Der letzte Mohikaner
Nacherzählt von Albert Häusermann
Gloria-Buch / Sammelalbum
Bilder aus dem Farbfilm "Der letzte Mohikaner"
Gloria-Verlag (Bergdietikon / Schweiz; 1967)
ex libris MTP