Natty Bumppo
| Natty Bumppo | |
|---|---|
| character | |
| First appearance | The Pioneers |
| Last appearance | The Deerslayer |
| Created by | James Fenimore Cooper |
| Information | |
| Aliases | Nathaniel Bumppo among many others |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Scout, huntsman, explorer |
| Nationality | Delaware (by upbringing), British Colonial American (in white society until US independence), American (from US independence to 1804) |
Nathaniel "Natty" Bumppo is the protagonist of James Fenimore Cooper's pentalogy of novels known as the .
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 many weapons; chiefly the long rifle. He is most often shown alongside his Mohican foster-brother Chingachgook.
Bumppo is featured in a series of novels by James Fenimore Cooper collectively called the . The novels in the collection are as follows:
The tales recount significant events in Natty Bumppo's life from 1740 to 1806.
Before his appearance in The Deerslayer, Bumppo went by the aliases of "Straight-Tongue," "The Pigeon," and the "Lap-Ear." After buying his first rifle, he gained the name of "Deerslayer." He is subsequently known as "Hawkeye" and "La Longue Carabine" in The Last of the Mohicans, "Pathfinder" in The Pathfinder, "Leatherstocking" in The Pioneers, from which the collective title for all the novels is drawn, and "the trapper" in The Prairie.
Bumppo has been portrayed most often in adaptions of The Last of the Mohicans. He was portrayed by Harry Lorraine in the 1920 film version, by Harry Carey in the 1932 film serial version, by Randolph Scott in the 1936 film version, by Kenneth Ives in the 1971 BBC serial, by Steve Forrest in the 1977 TV movie and by Daniel Day-Lewis in the 1992 film version. Day-Lewis received a BAFTA Film Award nomination for Best Actor in 1993, won an Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actor in 1993, and won an ALFS Award for British Actor of the Year in 1993 for his interepretation of the character. In the 1992 film however the character's name is changed from Natty Bumppo to Nathaniel Poe.
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