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
Disagreeable Tales Disagreeable Tales Disagreeable Tales () is an 1894 short story collection by the French writer Léon Bloy. It consists of 30 tales set in Paris, focused on criminality, perversions, and other subject matters typical of the decadent movement. The common theme is the faith in God in a time of human spiritual crisis. An English translation by Erik Butler was published in 2015 by Wakefield Press. Erik Morse wrote for "The Paris Review" in 2015, "What distinguishes Bloy's 'tales' from those written by Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Poe, and Lautréamont is the marked absence of any sensualist or proto-surrealist tone with