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Set on the American colonial frontier, the narrative follows isolated families and communities during wartime, portraying raids, land grants, and the collision of settler law with indigenous customs. It combines detailed landscape description with scenes of hardship and violence while sketching a range of human types shaped by differing educations and habits. The work questions sentimental patriotism by exposing political opportunism and moral ambiguity, and it argues that Native people possess their own codes of honor rather than being mere antagonists. The structure alternates episodic historical incidents, character studies, and reflective commentary on justice, property, and the human costs of conflict.

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Title: Wyandotté; Or, The Hutted Knoll: A Tale

Author: James Fenimore Cooper

Release date: December 1, 2003 [eBook #10434]
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Language: English

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Wyandotté;

or,

The Hutted Knoll.

A Tale.

By J. Fenimore Cooper.



"I venerate the Pilgrim's cause,
Yet for the red man dare to plead:
We bow to Heaven's recorded laws,
He turns to Nature for his creed."

Sprague.



Complete in One Volume.

1871.