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
The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales is a collection of short stories by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Released in late 1851 with a copyright of 1852, it is the final collection of tales by Hawthorne published in his lifetime. After publishing his collection "Mosses from an Old Manse" in 1846, Hawthorne mostly turned away from the short tales that had marked the majority of his career to that point. In the interim period leading up to the collection "The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales", he wrote only four new stories: "Main-street", "Feathertop", "The Snow-Image",