Meet the Cast
Hawkeye
The Most Interesting Man In The WorldWe first meet Hawkeye as he lounges by the banks of a stream with his Indian friend Chingachgook, cool as a cucumber. He's clothed in the frontier style: huntin...
Magua
Dumb Like A FoxKnown as "Le Renard Stubil" to his French comrades, or "The Sly Fox" in English, Magua is a member of the Huron tribe and the Big Bad of this novel, even though he has a super-cool n...
Uncas
Known as "the bounding elk," Uncas, son of Chingachgook, is an accomplished forester and warrior. He is the example of a "good Indian," given as a counterpoint to Magua as a "bad Indian." We're usi...
Chingachgook
The #1 reason we wish James Fenimore Cooper was alive today is so we could call him up and ask him how to pronounce Chingachgook's name properly.Chingachgook is the father of Uncas and the titular...
Duncan Heyward
If Hawkeye gets to be called "The Long Rifle" and Magua gets to be called "The Sly Fox," we'll go ahead and nickname Duncan Heyward "The Overcooked Noodle" or "What Happens to a Newspaper When You...
Cora Munro
Cora is the more sensible of the two Munro sisters. Dark-haired, strong-willed, and calm in the face of danger, she is everything that the typical 19th century heroine is not. Although in some ways...
Alice Munro
She's a Nobel Prize-winning author of short stories, and our own personal hero.Oh, wait. Wrong Alice Munro. This Alice Munro, the character in The Last of the Mohicans, is, in the words of her sist...