Mahican track and casinos, private interests and other tribes opposed the deal. James Fenimore Cooper based his novel, "The Last of the Mohicans", on the Mahican tribe. His description includes some cultural aspects of the Mohegan, a different Algonquian tribe that lived in eastern Connecticut. Cooper set his novel in the Hudson Valley, Mahican land, but used some Mohegan names for his characters, such as Uncas. The novel has been adapted for the cinema more than a dozen times, the first time in 1920. Michael Mann directed a 1992 adaptation, which starred Daniel Day-Lewis as a Mohican-adopted white man. Mahican The
James Fenimore Cooper Ways of the Hour", authored in 1850. He turned again from pure fiction to the combination of art and controversy in which he had achieved distinction with the "Littlepage Manuscripts" (1845–1846). His next novel was "The Crater, or Vulcan's Peak" (1847), in which he attempted to introduce supernatural machinery. "Jack Tier" (1848) was a remaking of "The Red Rover", and "The Ways of the Hour" was his last completed novel. Cooper spent the last years of his life back in Cooperstown. He died on September 14, 1851, the day before his 62nd birthday. He was buried in the Christ Episcopal