Paul Oskar Höcker the movies. He was the father of musician and author Karla Höcker. In the beginning of the twentieth century he wrote a number of Leatherstocking Tales for children in the vein of James Fenimore Cooper, and attracted attention in the United States; "The Pittsburg Press", in a short biographical article published in 1905, describes him as the author of "delightfully humorous stories." During World War I he was a captain in the Landwehr in Lille, France. He wrote of his experiences in the first three months of the war in "An der Spitze meiner Kompagnie. Drei Monate Kriegserlebnisse" (Berlin: 1919),
Leatherstocking Tales the series, which discrepancies Cooper likely introduced for the sake of convenience. For instance, Cooper manipulated time to avoid making Leatherstocking 100 years old when he traveled to the Kansas plains in "The Prairie". The Natty Bumppo character is generally believed to have been inspired, at least in part, by the historic explorer Daniel Boone or the lesser known David Shipman. Critic Georg Lukacs likened Bumppo to Sir Walter Scott's "middling characters; because they do not represent the extremes of society, these figures can serve as tools for the social and cultural exploration of historical events, without directly portraying the