# The Last of the Mohicans — Character guide

> Key figures in The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper.

- [Major Duncan Heyward](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_of_the_mohicans_se/characters/major_heyward.md): Heyward serves as escort to Colonel Munro's daughters and as the reader's conventional lens on a frontier that keeps exceeding his expectations. His courage is real but his confidence is brittle: he starts at a war-cry, 
- [Magua](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_of_the_mohicans_se/characters/magua.md): Magua moves between two worlds as guide, interpreter, and enemy, and his quiet composure makes him more frightening than any open threat. His wound, his exile, and his memory of wrongs done him give his vengeance a logic
- [Hawkeye](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_of_the_mohicans_se/characters/hawkeye.md): Known to enemies as La Longue Carabine, Hawkeye fights beside Chingachgook and Uncas with a marksmanship and a code that owe more to the forest than to any army. He can spare a dying enemy a bullet or refuse him one, and
- [Uncas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_of_the_mohicans_se/characters/uncas.md): Son of Chingachgook and the novel's most agile warrior, Uncas leaps into the thick of the Hurons to shield Cora and moves through the forest with a silence that unnerves his enemies. His loyalty to his father and his gro
- [Cora Munro](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_of_the_mohicans_se/characters/cora_munro.md): Cora is the protective, maternal counterweight to her sister Alice, and she meets the Huron chief's proposals with a calm that masks both fear and calculation. Her willingness to offer herself in Alice's place reveals a 
- [Alice Munro](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_of_the_mohicans_se/characters/alice_munro.md): Alice perches on her father's knee and smooths his gray hair, a picture of daughterly devotion that Heyward watches with delight. Her beauty and gentleness draw both protection and menace, and her fear in the hands of th
- [Chingachgook](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_of_the_mohicans_se/characters/chingachgook.md): Chingachgook is the last hereditary chief of a dispossessed people, father to Uncas and brother-in-arms to Hawkeye, moving through the forest with a dignity that unsettles his white companions as much as it awes them. Wh
- [David Gamut](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_of_the_mohicans_se/characters/david_gamut.md): David Gamut drifts into the frontier party as a harmless eccentric, offering sacred song where others offer scoutcraft, and reading the wilderness through the lens of his own piety. His obliviousness — he notices corn fe
- [Colonel Munro](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_of_the_mohicans_se/characters/colonel_munro.md): Munro governs his garrison with the stiff dignity of an old soldier and the wounded memory of a man who has already buried a wife and a reputation's worth of happiness. When Heyward asks for Alice's hand, Munro's respons
- [Marquis de Montcalm](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_of_the_mohicans_se/characters/montcalm.md): Montcalm arrives in the narrative as the polished foil to Munro: a European commander whose manners and courage are beyond question, and whose authority over his Native allies is the fragile thing on which everything dep
- [Tamenund](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_of_the_mohicans_se/characters/tamenund.md): Tamenund presides over the Delaware council as living memory — a prophet whose arm is withered, whose arrow would not frighten a fawn, yet whose word still commands absolute silence. When Uncas is brought before him, the
- [General Webb](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_of_the_mohicans_se/characters/general_webb.md): The British general at Fort Edward who delays sending reinforcements.
- [Huron Warrior](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_last_of_the_mohicans_se/characters/the_huron_warrior.md): A generic Huron warrior encountered by the party.

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