The Last of the Mohicans was an American novel published by James Fenimore Cooper in 1826, as part of Romanticism.
This is considered the finest of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales.[1] The novel is 145,469 words long.[2]
The setting of the novel is during the French and Indian War, in 1757. Amid the violence of war, there is a kidnapping of two daughters of British colonels, followed by a rescue aided by Mohicans who are the final members of a dying tribe.