Leatherstocking Tales

[laughs] Last of the Mohicans.

Okay, the answer to this one is The Leatherstocking Tales.

The Leatherstocking Tales.

Natty Bumppo.

It has two Ps.

Bumppo, Bump-Bumppo.

I know.

The Leatherstocking Tales.

Only after it has been purchased by its first owner does the pocket handkerchief reveal the full extent of its magical ability to read the mind and heart of the person who holds it in their hand and uses it to dab their mucous membranes.

Cooper was best known for The Last of the Mohicans and other books in the Leatherstocking Tales series, swashbuckling stories of romance and war on the American frontier.

While the landscape of Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief is generally the interior of ladies' linen closets, Cooper was only interested in feminine accessories insofar as he could transform them into spokespersons for his era.

Critics of the materialistic high society of New York City in the 1830s.

Uh, so it, it's fascinating to see all these connections.

Um, another really important one is James Fenimore Cooper and his famous Leatherstocking Tales.

And sort of the basis of those tales is, is really about how the, um, the wilderness was being encroached on by civilization and how the native people were ultimately being pushed out by the encroachment of society.

And the very first book in that series is called The Pioneers, and that was also published in the 1820s.