Johann Adam Hartmann year of birth, 1743 instead of 1748. The German sculptor Gernot Rumpf designed a fountain for the city of Edenkoben, which was completed in 1990. The Lederstrumpfbrunnen (lit. "Leatherstocking fountain") features three major statues of figures related to the Leatherstocking Tales, one of them is a statue of Hartmann/Bumpo displayed with a hunting rifle and a dog. Johann Adam Hartmann Johann Adam Hartmann (1748-1836) was a German born trapper and frontiersman in New York State. Some consider him as a possible inspiration for Natty Bumpo, the main character in James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. Hartmann was born in Edenkoben, Palatinate
Grim Prairie Tales Simcox appeared in "Grim Prairie Tales" as the wealthy rancher Horn. In an acting career from 1962-1991, he appeared in eight "Gunsmoke" episodes and in other television westerns. Stephen Holden from "New York Times" wrote, ""Grim Prairie Tales" aspires to be a sort of western "Twilight Zone," but the stories it tells are so flat and lacking in tension and atmosphere that the movie generates no tingles." Hal Hinson from "Washington Post" offered the film similar criticism, stating that the film wasn't particularly scary. Grim Prairie Tales Grim Prairie Tales is a 1990 American independent western-horror film, written and directed