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Natty Bumppo

Nathaniel "Natty" Bumppo is a fictional character and the protagonist of James Fenimore Cooper's pentalogy of novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales.

Natty Bumppo

The Pioneers

The Deerslayer

James Fenimore Cooper

Nathaniel Bumppo

Hawkeye among many others

Male

Scout, huntsman, explorer

Jess Bumppo

Fictional biography[edit]

Natty Bumppo, the child of white parents, grew up among Delaware Indians and was educated by Moravian Christians.[1][2] 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 and nephew Uncas.

Aliases[edit]

Before his appearance in The Deerslayer, Bumppo went by the aliases "Straight-Tongue", "The Pigeon", and the "Lap-Ear". After obtaining his first rifle, he gained the sobriquet "Deerslayer". He is subsequently known as "Hawkeye" and "La Longue Carabine" in The Last of the Mohicans, as "Pathfinder" in The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea, as "Leatherstocking" (from which the series' title is drawn) in The Pioneers, and as "the trapper" in The Prairie.

Portrayal[edit]

Bumppo has been portrayed most often in adaptations 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 interpretation of the character. For the 1992 film, director Michael Mann changed the character's name to Nathaniel Poe, fearing audiences would laugh at "Natty Bumppo".[4] The character is also portrayed as the adopted son of Chingachgook and brother of Uncas.


Adaptations of The Deerslayer have seen Bumppo played by Emil Mamelok in the 1920 film The Deerslayer and Chingachgook, by Bruce Kellogg in the 1943 film, by Lex Barker in the 1957 film, and by Steve Forrest in the 1978 TV movie.


Adaptions of The Pathfinder have seen Bumppo played by Paul Massie in the 1973 5-part BBC mini-series and Kevin Dillon in the 1996 TV movie.


Additionally, he was portrayed by Michael O'Shea in the 1947 film Last of the Redskins, George Montgomery in the 1950 film The Iroquois Trail, by John Hart in the 1957 TV series Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans, by Hellmut Lange in the 1969 German TV series Die Lederstrumpferzählungen, by Cliff DeYoung in the 1984 PBS mini-series The Leatherstocking Tales (which compressed The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, and The Pathfinder into four episodes), and by Lee Horsley in the 1994 TV series Hawkeye.

Bumppo appears as a character in ' novel Silverlock (1949).

John Myers Myers

The character , from M*A*S*H, takes his nickname from the Native American name given to Natty Bumppo. In both the TV series and the original Richard Hooker novel on which it is based, it is stated that The Last of the Mohicans is the only book Pierce's father had ever read.

Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce

Bumppo is known as Dan'l "Hawkeye" Bonner in 's novel series, beginning with Into the Wilderness, meant as a sequel to The Leatherstocking books. The series centers on Hawkeye and Cora's son, Nathaniel Bonner.

Sara Donati

Bumppo is featured in the comic book series , both in name and as "Hawkeye", along with Slue-Foot Sue (Pecos Bill's first wife).

Jack of Fables

Bumppo is referred to in the graphic novel series as being part of the 18th-century incarnation of the league.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Near the end of , the fifth in the best-selling Bloody Jack series of female adventures by L.A. Meyer, an adopted white Shawnee called Lightfoot, a rifleman who always travels with his native Shawnee "brother", reveals his white surname to be "Bumpus" in an obvious tribute to Cooper's Natty Bumppo. Thinly veiled or unveiled characters from the history and culture of the time of the Leatherstocking novels is a repeating feature of the Bloody Jack book series.

Mississippi Jack

The character Hawkeye takes his name from Natty Bumppo, whom he portrayed during his time as a carnival marksman before becoming a superhero.

Marvel Comics

The character Gus Brannhard adopts a Fuzzy and names him Natty Bumppo in novel Fuzzies and Other People (ISBN 0-441-26176-0).

H. Beam Piper's

Song of the Mohicans, written by Paul Block (Bantam Books, 1985,  978-0553565584), is a direct sequel to Last of the Mohicans. Taking up the story a few days after Uncas' death and burial, it recounts the adventures of Hawkeye and Chingachgook as they travel north to discover the connection between an Oneida brave and the Mohican tribe, and whether a sachem truly holds the key to the ultimate fate of the Mohicans.

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Natty Bumppo is featured in the Marvel comic Deadpool Killustrated, as part of a group of time-traveling heroes (, Hua Mulan, and Sherlock Holmes and his partner Dr. Watson), intent on stopping Deadpool from killing all literary characters.

Beowulf

Tinker, a major character in Amor Towles' novel, Rules of Civility, wants to be Natty Bumppo for the day.

There is an intelligent dog named Natty Bumppo in John Brunner's novel "Shockwave Rider".

Natty Bumppo appears as a character in 's eighth Outlander series novel, Written in My Own Heart's Blood.

Diana Gabaldon

Natty Bumppo, referred to as “Nasty” Bumppo, makes an appearance in ’s 1993 novel Green Grass, Running Water, in a scene in which he is sets out to kill Old Woman, whom he calls “Chingachgook.”

Thomas King

Natty Bumppo, referred to also as , is a character in Lauren Groff's novel The Monsters of Templeton, along with Chingachgook and James Franklin Temple, a version of the author James Fenimore Cooper.

Davey Shipman

Natty Bumppo is referenced as a nickname in 's Peace Like A River.

Leif Enger

Colin A. Clarke, "," Presented at the 11th Cooper Seminar, James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art at the State University of New York College at Oneonta, July 1997.

Like a Mirror Reflecting Itself: Natty Bumppo, The Virginian, and the Fate of the American Frontier

David Leverenz, "," American Literary History 1991 3(4):753–781. (caution: article requires money for full access)

The Last Real Man in America: From Natty Bumppo to Batman

Warren S. Walker: Plots and characters in the fiction of James Fenimore Cooper. Archon Books, 1978

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Hawkeye (Character) from The Last of the Mohicans (1992)