Note 46 — THE EARLY NOVELS OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1821–1831)

This was fitting for an old man. Thackeray pronounced Leatherstocking the greatest character created in Fiction since the Don Quixote of Cervantes and he thought the death scene in The Prairie, in which the old trapper said “Here!” as surpassing anything he had met in English literature. Phillips, 1621. Thackeray imitated this scene in Colonel Newcome’s “Adsum!”