James Fenimore Cooper, the author of the Leather stocking Tales that included five historical novels (The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer) was one of America's first successful novelists. He was born on 1789 in Cooperstown, New York. Novels by Cooper often reflected his life in the frontier settlement and depicted a violent journey. His adventure series were very popular in Europe and in the United States because they …showed first 75 words of 1731 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1731 total…each other in order to survive. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper has been a very popular book not only in America, but Europe. This is due to the new concepts and adventure that Cooper introduced in his novel. Not only did he include quest and excitement, his stories are "based" on real life events, or events that can happen. James Fennimore Cooper contributed a lot to American and World Wide literature.