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),
The Deerslayer New York State, which is the setting of four of his five "Leatherstocking Tales". This novel introduces Natty Bumppo as "Deerslayer": a young frontiersman in early 18th-century New York, who objects to the practice of taking scalps, on grounds that every living thing should follow "the gifts" of its nature, which would keep European Americans from taking scalps. Two characters who actually seek to take scalps are Deerslayer's foil Henry March (alias "Hurry Harry") and the former pirate 'Floating Tom' Hutter, to whom Deerslayer is introduced "en route" to a rendezvous with the latter's lifelong friend Chingachgook (initially apparent in