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Author Topic: Just watched "The Movie, Last of the Mohicans"  (Read 705 times)

Offline greyhunter

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Re: Just watched "The Movie, Last of the Mohicans"
« Reply #30 on: February 05, 2015, 12:39:21 PM »
Thanks druid, interesting info.
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Re: Just watched "The Movie, Last of the Mohicans"
« Reply #31 on: February 05, 2015, 01:48:23 PM »
druid,
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Re: Just watched "The Movie, Last of the Mohicans"
« Reply #32 on: February 05, 2015, 10:10:43 PM »
druid, I don't know you from Adam but I think you and me are gonna get along just fine.  :shake
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Re: Just watched "The Movie, Last of the Mohicans"
« Reply #33 on: February 06, 2015, 10:26:46 AM »
Credit: Moravian Archives, Bethlehem

"When Moravian artist John Valentine Haidt, who arrived in Bethlehem in 1754, after Tschoop's death, did his painting "First Fruits," he included a figure that is said to be Job, the Mohican warrior. Ralph Schwarz, director of Historic Bethlehem Inc., feels that this is probably a good likeness of the Indian. "There are other copies of the `First Fruits' in Europe and they all identify this as Tschoop."

"Tschoop was so well known among the Moravians that when painter John Valentine Haidt came to the community in 1754 he included a portrait of the Indian in his painting "First Fruits." But Tschoop became best known when he was used as the model for the Moravian Indian Chingachgook, in James Fenimore Cooper's 1826 novel "Last of the Mohicans." (click on painting to enlarge)

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Offline trent/OH

Re: Just watched "The Movie, Last of the Mohicans"
« Reply #34 on: February 06, 2015, 05:13:09 PM »
Quote from: "druid"
This thread is old I know - but I'm new to this forum and I live in the town where the 'inspiration" for Cooper's character "Chingachgook" had lived, and is now buried....

Are you still apologetic for re-opening this thread?

I hope not. You've turned a thread into a tapestry.

Offline Geezer in NH

Re: Just watched "The Movie, Last of the Mohicans"
« Reply #35 on: February 06, 2015, 06:58:23 PM »
I started this thread and thank you for you insight on it. I have learned and so have others.

Thank you and please stay on the site

Offline Staredge

Re: Just watched "The Movie, Last of the Mohicans"
« Reply #36 on: February 17, 2015, 04:48:10 PM »
One of the few books I'll read on an electronic device.  I have LOTM and the Deerslayer on my phone.  I was a Firefighter/EMT for a long time.......I've learned to suspend my expectations of authenticity when dealing with movies.  My biggest problem was that I had read the books before the movie, and was then mad because they added/left out parts, and changed things around.