Chingachgook Chingachgook Chingachgook is a fictional character in four of James Fenimore Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, including "The Last of the Mohicans". Chingachgook was a lone Mohican chief and companion of the series' hero, Natty Bumppo. In "The Deerslayer", Chingachgook married Wah-ta-Wah, who bore him a son named Uncas, but died while she was still young. Uncas, who was at his birth "last of the Mohicans", grew to manhood but was killed in a battle with the Huron warrior Magua. Chingachgook died as an old man in the novel "The Pioneers", which makes him the actual "last of the Mohicans," having
The Pioneers (novel) displaced by settlers. Natty vanishes into the sunset. "The Pioneers" was the first novel of James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales" series, featuring the character Natty Bumppo, a resourceful white American living in the woods. The story focuses on the development of a "wilderness" area (as classified by European Americans) as a settled European-American community with refinements. The story takes place in the fictional town of Тempleton, which is said to be modeled after Cooperstown, New York, founded by Cooper's father after the Revolutionary War. Naturalist ideas: Although not classified as a naturalist novel, Cooper depicts many naturalist based ideas in