Natty Bumppo
Leatherstocking Tales character
Natty Bumppo (left) from a 1989Soviet stamp on themes fromLeatherstocking Tales
First appearance	The Pioneers
Last appearance	The Deerslayer
Created by	James Fenimore Cooper
In-universe information
Full name	Nathaniel Bumppo
Alias	Hawkeyeamong many others
Gender	Male
Occupation	Scout,huntsman,explorer

Nathaniel "Natty"Bumppo is a fictional character and theprotagonist ofJames Fenimore Cooper's pentalogy of novels known as theLeatherstocking Tales. He appears throughout the series as an archetypal American ranger, and has been portrayed many times in a variety of media in popular culture.

Natty Bumppo, the child of white parents, grew up amongDelaware Indians and was educated byMoravian Christians.^[1][2] In adulthood, he is a near-fearless warrior skilled in many weapons, chiefly thelong rifle. He is most often shown alongside hisMohican foster brotherChingachgook and nephew Uncas.

Bumppo is featured in a series of novels byJames Fenimore Cooper collectively called theLeatherstocking Tales. The novels in the collection are as follows:

The tales recount significant events in Natty Bumppo's life from 1740 to 1806.^[3]

Before his appearance inThe 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" inThe Last of the Mohicans, as "Pathfinder" inThe Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea, as "Leatherstocking" (from which the series' title is drawn) inThe Pioneers, and as "the trapper" inThe Prairie.

Bumppo has been portrayed most often in adaptations ofThe Last of the Mohicans. He was portrayed byHarry Lorraine inthe 1920 film version, byHarry Carey inthe 1932 film serial version, byRandolph Scott inthe 1936 film version, byKenneth Ives inthe 1971 BBC serial, bySteve Forrest inthe 1977 TV movie and byDaniel Day-Lewis inthe 1992 film version.

Day-Lewis received a BAFTA Film Award nomination for Best Actor in 1993, won anEvening 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, directorMichael 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 ofThe Deerslayer have seen Bumppo played by Emil Mamelok in the 1920 filmThe Deerslayer and Chingachgook, byBruce Kellogg in the 1943 film, byLex Barker in the 1957 film, and bySteve Forrest in the 1978 TV movie.

Adaptions ofThe Pathfinder have seen Bumppo played byPaul Massie in the 1973 5-part BBC mini-series andKevin Dillon in the 1996 TV movie.

Additionally, he was portrayed byMichael O'Shea in the 1947 filmLast of the Redskins,George Montgomery in the 1950 filmThe Iroquois Trail, byJohn Hart in the 1957 TV seriesHawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans, byHellmut Lange in the 1969 German TV seriesDie Lederstrumpferzählungen, byCliff DeYoung in the 1984 PBS mini-seriesThe Leatherstocking Tales (which compressedThe Deerslayer,The Last of the Mohicans, andThe Pathfinder into four episodes), and byLee Horsley in the 1994 TV seriesHawkeye.

• Bumppo appears as a character inJohn Myers Myers' novelSilverlock (1949).
• The characterBenjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce, fromM*A*S*H, takes his nickname from the Native American name given to Natty Bumppo. In both the TV series andthe original Richard Hooker novel on which it is based, it is stated thatThe Last of the Mohicans is the only book Pierce's father had ever read.
• Bumppo is known as Dan'l "Hawkeye" Bonner inSara Donati's novel series, beginning withInto the Wilderness, meant as a sequel to The Leatherstocking books. The series centers on Hawkeye and Cora's son, Nathaniel Bonner.
• Bumppo is featured in the comic book seriesJack of Fables, both in name and as "Hawkeye", along with Slue-Foot Sue (Pecos Bill's first wife).
• Bumppo is referred to in the graphic novel seriesThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as being part of the 18th-century incarnation of the league.
• Near the end ofMississippi Jack, the fifth in the best-sellingBloody Jack series of female adventures byL.A. Meyer, an adopted whiteShawnee 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.
• TheMarvel Comics characterHawkeye takes his name from Natty Bumppo, whom he portrayed during his time as a carnival marksman before becoming a superhero.
• The character Gus Brannhard adopts a Fuzzy and names himNatty Bumppo inH. Beam Piper's novelFuzzies and Other People (ISBN 0-441-26176-0).
• Song of the Mohicans, written by Paul Block (Bantam Books, 1985,ISBN 978-0553565584), is a direct sequel toThe Last of the Mohicans. Taking up the story a few days after Uncas' death and burial, it recounts the adventures of Hawkeye andChingachgook as they travel north to discover the connection between anOneida brave and the Mohican tribe, and whether asachem truly holds the key to the ultimate fate of the Mohicans.
• Natty Bumppo is featured in the Marvel comicDeadpool Killustrated, as part of a group of time-traveling heroes (Beowulf,Hua Mulan, andSherlock Holmes and his partnerDr. Watson), intent on stopping Deadpool from killing all literary characters.
• 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 inDiana Gabaldon's eighthOutlander series novel,Written in My Own Heart's Blood.
• Natty Bumppo, referred to as “Nasty” Bumppo, makes an appearance inThomas King’s 1993 novelGreen Grass, Running Water, in a scene in which he sets out to kill Old Woman, whom he calls “Chingachgook.”
• Natty Bumppo, referred to also asDavey Shipman, is a character in Lauren Groff's novelThe Monsters of Templeton, along withChingachgook and James Franklin Temple, a version of the authorJames Fenimore Cooper.
• Natty Bumppo is referenced as a nickname inLeif Enger'sPeace Like A River.

University of Iowa's mascot, the Hawkeye was taken fromThe Last of the Mohicans novel.^[5]

Natty Bumppo was the name of several pop music bands in the 1970s, including bands from Dayton, Ohio, and central Utah.

Natty Bumppo is the name of the author ofThe Columbus Book Of Euchre andHouse Of Evil.

In 1989, theSoviet Union issued a series ofpostage stamps depicting themes of Cooper'sThe Leatherstocking Tales.

• TheLederstrumpfbrunnen (Leatherstocking fountain) inEdenkoben (Germany) contains a life-sized statue of Natty Bumppo
• The British sculptorThomas Nicholls designed a wooden sculpture of Natty Bumppo as part of an ensemble of six figures of American literature. The ensemble belongs to the interior design ofTwo Temple Place, London.^[6]

• InTotal War: Warhammer II the Skaven unit roster features a specialty unit named Natty Buboe’s Sharpshooters, who utilize long rifles to fire projectiles at an exceptionally long range. This unit also appeared on the tabletop inWarhammer Armies: Skaven (7th Edition).

• Colin A. Clarke, "Like a Mirror Reflecting Itself: Natty Bumppo,The Virginian, and the Fate of the American Frontier," 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.
• David Leverenz, "The Last Real Man in America: From Natty Bumppo to Batman,"American Literary History 1991 3(4):753–781. (caution: article requires money for full access)
• Warren S. Walker:Plots and characters in the fiction of James Fenimore Cooper. Archon Books, 1978

• "Hawkeye (Character) fromThe Last of the Mohicans (1992),"The Internet Movie Database

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