![]() Why the French and Indian War? Because it was that war, more than even the Revolutionary War, that decided the fate and predominant cultural identity of the USA. We'll answer the questions we posed above backwards. It's about American history at a crucial junction. Okay, but why upstate New York? Why Mohicans? Why the French and Indian War? Why not set a novel about wilderness adventuring somewhere else?īecause The Last of the Mohicans isn't just about adventuring in the wilderness. ![]() It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could be met. The setting in super-important in this novel the novel even opens with a mention of the scene and historical moment in which the characters find themselves: By the time The Last of the Mohicans takes place, during the French and Indian War, Mohican land was relegated to a small area in upstate New York. ![]() So the Mohicans originally lived in an area that covered a lot of what is now New England-parts of Massachusetts and Connecticut were Mohican land. ![]()
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