Natty Bumppo the Mohicans", by Hellmut Lange in the 1969 German TV series "Die Lederstrumpferzählungen", by Cliff DeYoung in the 1984 PBS mini-series "The Leatherstocking Tales" (which compressed "The Deerslayer", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "The Pathfinder" into four episodes), and by Lee Horsley in the 1994 TV series "Hawkeye". Natty Bumppo Nathaniel "Natty" Bumppo is a fictional character and the protagonist of James Fenimore Cooper's pentalogy of novels known as the "Leatherstocking Tales". Natty Bumppo, the child of white parents, grew up among Delaware Indians and was educated by Moravian Christians. In adulthood, he is a near-fearless warrior skilled in
James Fenimore Cooper Linonian Society. Cooper served in the U.S. Navy as a midshipman, which greatly influenced many of his novels and other writings. The novel that launched his career was "The Spy", a tale about counter-espionage set during the American Revolutionary War and published in 1821. He also wrote numerous sea stories, and his best-known works are five historical novels of the frontier period known as the "Leatherstocking Tales". Cooper's works on the U.S. Navy have been well received among naval historians, but they were sometimes criticized by his contemporaries. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel "The Last of