Last of the Redskins Last of the Redskins Last of the Redmen (sometimes Last of the Redskins) is an adaption of "The Last of the Mohicans" by James Fenimore Cooper produced by Sam Katzman for Columbia Pictures. The film was shot in Vitacolor but released in Cinecolor. Unlike other adaptations the film includes a boy brother of Cora and Alice Munro and does not feature Chingachgook nor does it feature a romance between Uncas and Cora. The battle of Fort William Henry is not shown and most of the characters in the film ride horses rather than moving by foot. During the French and
James Fenimore Cooper Pathfinder" a masterpiece and professed great admiration for Cooper's portrayal of nature, only equalled in his view by Walter Scott. Mark Twain famously criticized "The Deerslayer" and "The Pathfinder" in his satirical but shrewdly observant essay, "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" (1895), which portrays Cooper's writing as clichéd and overwrought. Cooper was also criticized heavily for his depiction of women characters in his work. James Russell Lowell, Cooper's contemporary and a critic, referred to it poetically in "A Fable for Critics", writing, "... the women he draws from one model don't vary / All sappy as maples and flat as a