What is The Last of the Mohicans?
{{italictitle}} {{Infobox book | name = The Last of the Mohicans | image_caption = Title page, 1859 edition | translator = | image = The Last of the Mohicans 1859.jpg | author = [[James Fenimore Cooper]] | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = [[United States of America]] | language = English | country of origin = | series = The Leatherstocking Tales | subject = | genre = Adventure<br />Historical<br />Romance | publisher = Philadelphia: H. C. Carey & I. Lea | pub_date = 1826 | english_pub_date = | media_type = Print | pages = | oclc = | dewey = | congress = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''The Last of the Mohicans''''' is an adventure story with an historical setting and several historical characters. It was written by [[James Fenimore Cooper]]. It was published in 1826. It is set during the [[French and Indian War]] in what is now [[upstate New York]].<ref name=pwa /> The book's style is difficult, but the book is one of the most popular stories in the English language. It is often studied in American literature courses.<ref name=pwa /> It has been loosely adapted to movies, a [[movie serial]], a television series, and made-for-television movies.<ref name=imdb /> ==Background== ''The Last of the Mohicans'' is one of five books in a series informally known as The Leatherstocking Tales. These five books follow the life and career of a fictional American frontiersman named Natty Bumpo. ''Mohicans'' is the third in the chronological order of the story.<ref name=pwa>Manning, Martin J., and Clarence R. Wyatt (Eds.) ''Propaganda in Wartime America''. ABC-CLIO. pp. 75-76</ref> Cooper's sources and influences include British and American books in the [[Romanticism|Romantic literary tradition]] such as the ''Waverly'' books by Sir [[Walter Scott]], travel books, and American [[folklore]] about the frontie