Magua motives and plans. Later he kills Uncas. He himself is then killed by Chingachgook, the father of Uncas. Other film versions similarly alter the final outcome of the novel. Magua Magua is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the novel "The Last of the Mohicans" by James Fenimore Cooper. This historical novel is set at the time of the French and Indian War. A Huron Indian chief, he is also known by the French alias "Le Renard Subtil" ("The Wily Fox"). Magua is the enemy of Colonel Munro, the commandant of Fort William Henry, and attempts on several
The Spy (Cooper novel) ground between the British and Continental armies. Harvey Birch, peddler and patriot, is a character remotely founded upon that of a real spy who helped John Jay. H. L. Barnum's "The Spy Unmasked; or Memoirs of Enoch Crosby, alias Harvey Birch" (1828; 5th ed., 1864) claimed to identify the historical spy. The Spy (Cooper novel) The Spy: a Tale of the Neutral Ground was James Fenimore Cooper's second novel, published in 1821 by Wiley & Halsted. This was the earliest American novel to win wide and permanent fame and may be said to have begun the type of romance which