#leatherstock

[atomic-chronoscaph]

The Deerslayer - art by N. C. Wyeth (1925)

[awolfinpeopleclothes]

Do American authors still write pages of one unbroken paragraph or was that more a 19th century thing? Either way, I hate it.

[kingbryancroidragon]

I'm just saying, but I feel like the opening page for the Marvel Classic Comics adaptation of "The Last of the Mohicans" looks better than any poster, VHS, DVD or Blu-Ray cover for any screen adaptation. I also love how Chingachgook, who ultimately turns out to be the title character, is the American Indian character who we are drawn to first while his son Uncas, whom we are led to believe is the title character, is basically tucked away in the corner there with Cora. Then you have Hawkeye aka Leatherstocking, the protagonist of the Leatherstocking Tales as a whole, placed behind Chingachgook and that is a nice touch and does a better job than most screen adaptations, especially the 1992 film, whose posters and covers feature the protagonist, but not the title character, while here both title character and protagonist are present.

[stagepresenceofapotato]

✨️obligatory 2022 reading log ✨️

yes i did give up on rating half-way through the year 💛 it's fine 😌

[gatheringbones]

[“A deep psychosis inherent in US settler colonialism is revealed in settler self-indigenization.

The phenomenon is not the same as the practice of “playing Indian,” which historian Philip Deloria brilliantly dissected, from the Boston Tea Party Indians to hobbyists dressing up like Indians to New Age Indians. Settler self-indigenization’s genealogy can be traced to the period of the mid-1820s to 1840s, what historians call the Age of Jacksonian Democracy, marked by, among other phenomenon, the blossoming of US American literature.

The giants of the era are well known to every US high schooler who has had to suffer through American Lit classes—Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman, Longfellow, Hawthorne, and dozens of others. Among them was James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851), who conjured the United States’ origin story in his Leatherstocking Tales, made up of five novels featuring the hero Natty Bumppo, also called variously, depending on his age, Leatherstocking, Pathfinder, Deer-slayer, Hawkeye. Together the novels narrate the mythical forging of the new country from the 1754–1763 French and Indian War to independence to the settlement of the plains by migrants traveling by wagon train from Tennessee. At the end of the saga, Bumppo dies a very old man on the edge of the Rocky Mountains as he gazes east. But it is The Last of the Mohicans, subtitled A Narrative of 1757, that relates the self-indigenization myth that has endured. The Last of the Mohicans was a best-selling book throughout the nineteenth century and has been in print continuously since, along with a half dozen Hollywood movies, the first in 1911, plus several television series made in the US, Canada, and Britain. The most recent Hollywood production was a blockbuster that appeared in 1992, the Columbus Quincentenary.

Cooper conjured the birth of something new and wondrous, literally, the US American race, a new people born of the merger of the best of both worlds, the Native and the European, not a biological merger but something more ephemeral involving the disappearance of the Indian. Cooper has Chingachgook, the last of the “noble” and “pure” Natives, die off as nature would have it, handing the continent over to Hawkeye, the indigenized settler and Chingachgook’s adopted son. The publication arc of the Leatherstocking Tales parallels the Jackson presidency. For those who consumed the books in that period and throughout the nineteenth century—generations of young white men mainly—the novels became perceived fact, not fiction, and the basis for the coalescence of US American settler nationalism, the settler ideology that justified the fiscal-military state.”]

roxanne dunbar-ortiz, from not a nation of immigrants: settler colonialism, white supremacy, and a history of erasure and exclusion, 2021

[banjoforpleasure]

Old Leatherstocking - O Death (Conversation With Death)

[doyourememberrocknrollradio]

Old Leatherstocking - Death and the Lady

[broadcastarchive-umd]

#QSLfriday WRUN signed on April 24, 1948, under the ownership of the Rome Sentinel newspaper. The Sentinel was concerned that local radio did not adequately serve the Utica-Rome area. WRUN, with a 5,000-watt signal, had a more regional reach.

One of its announcers during WRUN's early days, in his first job as a broadcaster, was a young radio announcer named Dick Clark, whose father was the manager of WRUN. He was known on-air as "Dick Clay," to avoid confusion with his father, who had the same name. The young Dick Clark would move to television, as anchor of the evening news program on WKTV, in 1951.

The station became WUTI in 2008 and was last owned by Leatherstocking Media Group, Inc. It was simulcast with WFBL in Syracuse until it went off the air in 2013.

Committee to Preserve Radio Verifications   |   Tumblr Archive

[chronivore]

Chingachgook

[ronnymerchant]

THIS is the kind of stuff I was looking for in the old German film mags!

LEATHERSTOCKING (1922)- And that's Bela Lugosi as Chingachook!

[thebeautifulbook]

THE LEATHERSTOCKING TALES by James Fenimore Cooper (London: Routledge, c.1892). 5 black & white illustrations.

THE DEERSLAYER, THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, THE PATHFINDER, THE PIONEERS, and THE PRAIRIE.

[fnovelso]

📘𝐃𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐅𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑📘: Thursday – January 17, 2017 – The Deerslayer

[prowl-autism-extraordinaire]

i love the leatherstocking tales, have since i read them at 11, and i havent read them in years. started the audiobook for deerslayer and uhhhhh. well. so far its been an hour of "well this is so beautiful, it proves theres a god" "yeah well [racism]" "hold on now, god made everybody the way he made them and also morality is defined by your culture" "[racism] [lust]" "okay but have you considered that theres good and bad people everywhere and saying any specific race is bad or stupid is equivilent to spitting in gods face" "[atheism]" "look. we're white, which means its traditional to believe in god. the tribes dont believe in god but thats because theyre not white so its okay, its not their tradition. but you and i are white so we're gonna believe in god and fucking well like it"

[theashen-fox]

James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, often regarded as his masterpiece.

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[ronmerchant]

LEATHERSTOCKING (1922)-That’s Bela Lugosi as Chingachook!

[whimsywoo]

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